Olaf Alders wrote:
This has been in MetaCPAN since early times, so I'm guessing maybe 5 years that
it has been around? It's a bit late to just back out of the change. I'd
rather get consensus on how to improve it rather than to gut it entirely,
unless there's consensus on just removing it.
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Well considering it's, _essentially_, "corrupt" data, any use of it
is likely to lead to incorrect results.
That doesn't seem like something that should be kept active. If nothing
else, it will draw attention from those using to the problems and motivate
coming up with a fixed/better solution.
Besides, It's not like it is a feature in perl; the main request, at this
point, was to hide cpan.search.org's use of it until the problems are
sorted out.
It seems to me, that if any process is relying on that data, it's
likely suffering from GIGO, which makes me wonder what benefit it could
be providing
such that it needs to stay active (?)...
