@Helmut: thanks, a very good point.  I've emailed both of these authors.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2014 18:35:00 UTC+1 schrieb Jeffrey Kegler:
>>
>> Adding deprecatory information to the modules is something I won't do,
>> because it means a new release and the CPAN infrastructure tends to push
>> users into automatic upgrades.  This means that the legacy users, who are
>> the only reason for the modules to be out there at all, would undergo the
>> the risk of an upgrade for something who, for them, has zero added value.
>>
>
> But did you check the reverse dependencies?
>
> There are two of them:
>
> *Plack-Middleware-Pjax-1.113400
> <https://metacpan.org/release/Plack-Middleware-Pjax>*PJAX for your Plack
>  depends on *Marpa-HTML <https://metacpan.org/release/Marpa-HTML> *
>
> *and *
>
>
> *MarpaX-Simple-Rules-v0.2.6
> <https://metacpan.org/release/MarpaX-Simple-Rules>Simple definition
> language for rules*
> depends on
>
> *Marpa-XS <https://metacpan.org/release/Marpa-XS>*
>
>  You should inform the authors of this distributions directly, that they
> should port or deprecate their distributions.
>
>
> Also, Marpa::XS has a complicated build, one which I last performed on a
>> machine/setup that I no longer use for development.
>>
>
> Deprecation would be the usual way.
>
> Maybe you could upload a new dummy release with a minimal doc including
> the deprecation.
>
> Helmut Wollmersdorfer
>
>
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