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I tried some time ago testing on 5.5, I was able to install CPAN::Reporter that time (now you won't be able to install fresh CPAN.pm there), but somehow Safe.pm got upgraded and it stopped working.
Later I tried 5.4, it was hard even to install it, and upgrading CPAN.pm is very hard, so I was not able to install even CPAN::Reporter.
I guess it up to real users of these versions to try to make reporting toolchain working. They deploy their software, but do they install CPAN modules?
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but do they install CPAN modules?
From personal experience, yes. However, in some instances BACKPAN is used to get the tarball of a older known working version :)