Hi Sergei, It appears to be a symlink issue via PAUSE > late 2025 per Olaf (I contacted him), and he's raised the issue upstream. Hopefully it can get sorted out there.
Cheers, Brett On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 5:44 PM Sergei Vyshenski <[email protected]> wrote: > You are right. Leon is not to blame. The problem is nearly global for > all of CPAN. > "Nearly" means that only perl modules which have recent updates are > affected. > Looking at my ports, I would estimate "recent" as within several months. > > On 7 Mar 26 Sat 0:49, estrabd wrote: > > Hi, Leon probably did not do that. It's probably the upstream metacpan > > distributors. You may wish to reach out to Olaf Anders or post a > > message on Reddit's r/perl. The people who maintain the module and > > PAUSE infrastructures are active there. I would be surprised to know > > if they would have done that knowing that so many Ports rely on it. > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM Sergei Vyshenski > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Leon Timmermans (LEONT), author of 147 perl modules at CPAN: > > > > https://metacpan.org/author/LEONT > > > > recently has changed location of his distributions > > from > > https://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/by-module/. > > <https://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/by-module/.>.. > > to > > https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/. > > <https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/.>.. > > > > More precisely older versions can be found at BOTH locations, but > > newer > > versions can be found ONLY at the second location. > > > > Consider module Module::Build::Tiny as an example. > > > > Version 0.052 can be found in both places: > > > https://cpan.metacpan.org/modules/by-module/Module/Module-Build-Tiny-0.052.tar.gz > > > https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/Module-Build-Tiny-0.052.tar.gz > > > > But version 0.053 can be found only here: > > > https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/L/LE/LEONT/Module-Build-Tiny-0.053.tar.gz > > > > Hence maintainers had better add a line to the respective port's > > Makefile, which is similar to: > > > > MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= CPAN:LEONT > > > > Otherwise portscout will fail to warn about new versions. > > > > Have no idea if this change of location is typical to this particular > > author. > > And have no idea how this change could be automated to make all perl > > ports happy . > > > > Regards, Sergei > > > >
