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What's With These CPAN-Testers Failures?

So I just learned about and subscribed to the CPAN-Testers feed for my modules. There appear to be a number of odd failures. Take this one. It says, Can’t locate Algorithm/Diff.pm, despite the fact that I have properly specified the requirement for Text::Diff, which itself properly requires Algorithm::Diff.. Is this an instance of CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS not following all prerequisites, or what?

Or take this failure. It says, [CP_ERROR] [Mon Sep 5 09:32:08 2005] No such module ‘mod_perl’ found on CPAN. Yet here it is. Maybe the CPANPLUS indexer has a bug? Or are people’s configurations just horked? Or am I just doing something braindead?

Opinions welcomed.

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Alexandr Ciornii wrote:

In report #249132 user simply did not installed Text::Diff. CPANPLUS allows this. It simply should not send report then, but, as you can see, it is old version of CPANPLUS.

Theory wrote:

Alexandr,

Actually, it says, Error: Can't locate Algorithm/Diff.pm in […] /home/cpan/plus/5.8.3/build/Text-Diff-0.35/blib/lib/Text/Diff.pm line 56. So it looks like a failure when building Text::Diff, even though that module does properly require Algorithm::Diff. But I think you're right; I'll just blame the old version of CPANPLUS.

—Theory

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