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in reply to Deprecating CPAN modules?

Exists various methods for deprecated

I see that authors mark modules with (DEPRECATED) front the description line.

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Re^2: Deprecating CPAN modules?
by xdg (Monsignor) on Apr 13, 2007 at 10:43 UTC

    Actually, it needs to be noted in the NAME section of the pod to show up in CPAN search. 

    =head1 NAME

Foo::Bar - (Deprecated) Use Bam::Baz instead

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