Ancient distribution has apparent index priority over current

[kentfredric]

Dropping this here because something is wrong at the data level which is obviously leaking into the UI. There may be secondary bugs here that are being exposed in the front end as a result of the primary data level bug.

https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Builder-Tester

You will note how the coloration of this release indicates it is both

• Indexed
• The Latest Release

And clicking on any of the modules in this "latest release" takes you somewhere else entirely:

Exploring deep in "Browse source" gets you here:

https://metacpan.org/source/MARKF/Test-Builder-Tester-1.01/lib/Test/Builder/Tester.pm

Clicking the "module documentation link" sends you to .... an entirely different release, in an entirely different distribution:

O_o

[mickeyn]

the result you see is for the exact match on the distribution name - that's prioritized by design. may be changed in v1 with the suggester work (#470)

[ranguard]

Is this our pod disambiguation ?

[ranguard]

@haarg to cleanup ticket issue description after our discussion

[haarg]

For some reason, the modules in the Test::Builder::Tester are listed as latest. MARKF does hace comaint on the packages, but they aren't in 02packages as they have been superseded by those in Test-Simple.

If that was fixed, the URLs on the dist page would be correct, and they should also drop out of the search result.

[tsibley]

This appears to be MetaCPAN::Script::Latest (invoked either by Script::Release or on its own from cron) catching that packages can move between distributions and setting "latest" on the new dist, but incorrectly not downgrading the file status in the old distribution.