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Fallback abstract when "unknown" #135

Closed chrstphrchvz closed 4 years ago

chrstphrchvz commented 4 years ago

In my list of distributions on MetaCPAN, one of the distributions has an inaccurate abstract:

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 Tcl-pTk-1.07 Demonstration of Perl/Tk widgets

Presumably this is because the distribution currently fails to specify the required abstract field, and which I should specify in a future release if I want this fixed.

However I am curious how CPAN decides what to use instead when the abstract is "unknown", and whether it could choose a better fallback value. In this case, CPAN appears to be using the POD NAME section from a demo script (widgetTclpTk); a more logical choice would be from the module that the distribution is named for ("Tcl::pTk - Interface to Tcl/Tk with Perl/Tk compatible syntax").

Leont commented 4 years ago

This sounds like a MetaCPAN issue, not a CPAN-Meta issue (though I can see where the confusion comes from)

chrstphrchvz commented 4 years ago

Would https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues be a better place to bring this up?

Leont commented 4 years ago

Would https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues be a better place to bring this up?

Yes, that'd be my best guess.

chrstphrchvz commented 4 years ago

Thanks. It turns out someone may have already reported it there: https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web/issues/1957