# from David Cantrell on Tuesday 06 November 2012: >> So how would I fix the dependency problem if I don't even know about >> it? > >By testing your code before releasing it? ... For the few of my dists >that I care most about,I re-test them every so often to make sure that >CPAN didn't break them.
The problem comes after you have released your code and its installability gets broken by a dependency's new bug/failure. In theory, you shouldn't have to retest your code to catch this (and I agree that reporting as a failure against your code is also incorrect.) That said, I would probably opt-in to some e-mail that tells me when a dep revision introduced a failure such that one of my dists became uninstallable, but I could also probably find a way to make that into a cron job using currently available data/APIs. --Eric -- --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------