Sometime in the last year, ownership of the bignum distro changed hands
from FLORA to PJACKLAM.   On CPAN, FLORA's last release (bignum-0.32) is
still present along with PKACJLAM's new one (bignum-0.37).

However:

$ zgrep bignum mirror/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
bigint                             0.32  F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
bignum                             0.32  F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
bigrat                             0.32  F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
Math::BigFloat::Trace              0.36  P/PJ/PJACKLAM/bignum-0.37.tar.gz
Math::BigInt::Trace                0.36  P/PJ/PJACKLAM/bignum-0.37.tar.gz

All 3 of the big* modules are indexed to the older FLORA release, not the
newer PJACKLAM release.

Is this a problem in the package index generation, or perhaps a problem
with the metadata in the bignum distros?   It's odd to me because clearly
the newer distro is being scanned, but it's only picking up the Math::*
modules, and not the big* modules.

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