Hi Luca, > This module is the client part of a SaaS product that's been decommissioned > (WURFL Cloud) > [...] We would like to deprecate the module or even remove it completely from > CPAN. > [...] What's the recommended procedure to do it?
You could just delete all releases in your author directory, but I'd suggest a slightly more involved process: 1. Do one more release of the deprecated module, which clearly marks it as deprecated. Here's a blog post I wrote on that topic: https://neilb.org/2015/01/17/deprecated-metadata.html 2. Immediately mark the older releases for deletion, using the "Delete Files" tab in the PAUSE web interface. 3. Wait a week or so and then schedule the deprecated release for deletion. There's a 3-day delay. The end result of this is that when people search for it on MetaCPAN, they won't find it, which is what you want. But they might just search using Google, which could find the historical releases on BackPAN (archive of all releases to CPAN ever), and this way they'd hopefully land on your most recent release which tells them that it's no longer available, and why. Cheers, Neil
