modulelist mistakes core DB for D/DM/DMR/DProf-19970614.tar.gz

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

So cpanp informs me that DB is outdated 19 1.03 19970614.00 DB DMR

It says

$ cpanp l DB
Details for 'DB'
Author                   Dean Roehrich (...)
Description              None given
Development Stage        Unknown
Installed File           C:\perl\5.14.1\lib\DB.pm
Interface Style          Unknown
Language Used            Unknown
Package                  DProf-19970614.tar.gz
Public License           Unknown
Support Level            Unknown
Version Installed        1.03
Version on CPAN          19970614
Contains:                DB                                           
+ 19970614
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4 Jun 1997 http://search.cpan.org/~dmr/DProf-19970614/

This is not DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API

cpan gives the same

$ cpan -D DB
     (no description)
     D/DM/DMR/DProf-19970614.tar.gz
     C:\perl\5.14.1\lib\DB.pm
     Installed: 1.03
     CPAN:      19970614  Not up to date
     Dean Roehrich (DMR)
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Anyone else see this wonkyness?

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Re: modulelist mistakes core DB for D/DM/DMR/DProf-19970614.tar.gz (whitespace) by tye (Sage) on Dec 07, 2011 at 14:29 UTC
Line 170 of DProf.pm is "`package DB;`". This should probably be changed to: `package DB; # Hide package from CPAN indexers` [download] Though, that is a bit of a sad state of affairs. Is this a new issue or a long-standing one? Because that line of code has been there quite a long time. - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: modulelist mistakes core DB for D/DM/DMR/DProf-19970614.tar.gz (whitespace) by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2011 at 14:33 UTC
Is this a new issue or a long-standing one? Because that line of code has been there quite a long time. Its new, since about 2011-12-04	[reply]
Re: modulelist mistakes core DB for D/DM/DMR/DProf-19970614.tar.gz by Anonymous Monk on Dec 07, 2011 at 14:32 UTC
I wonder if something changed recently in the indexer. cpan-outdated exhibited a similar bug recently, but doesn't appear to be related to any changes in its code: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72880	[reply]

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