--- On Wed, 14/4/10, Jesse Vincent <je...@fsck.com> wrote:

> From: Jesse Vincent <je...@fsck.com>
> 
> > Agreed, but you know you're going to see this and
> variants thereof:
> > 
> >      requires:
> >          perl: 6,0
> > 
> > Should that be a rejection for unknown format? I would
> think so.  Better to fail early than have junk spread
> throughout the CPAN.
> >
> 
> Just to confirm, you mean "refuse to index" not "refuse to
> propagate
> the file", right?

To be honest, I'm not sure. Definitely don't index that, but if someone 
presents an invalid version, you could wind up with a lot of junk that might be 
hard to clean out.

Of course, since I won't be the one cleaning the junk, I'm not worried. If my 
CPAN client was picking up bogus entries in indices, then I'd be worried :)

Cheers,
Ovid
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