02packages.details.txt doesn't contain developer releases, essentially by definition.
For the CPAN Dashboard I want to display the latest release of a dist, developer release or not. If the latest release is a developer release, then I'm currently thinking it should display the latest developer release and the latest non-developer release. This would result in some duplication of information (eg bug count), but there there is some useful information that would be good to see for these two releases, such as CPAN Testers results.
I've been talking to (he might say 'harassing' :-) Paul Johnson; CPAN Cover may evolve to provide coverage testing of the same thing: the latest stable release, and the latest developer release if that is the most recent release. At the moment it doesn't do developer releases, partly because there's no handy index that includes developer releases.
There's no easy way to get a list of all the releases outlined above, so I'm wondering if this wo