On Jan 18, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Matt S Trout wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:08:43PM -0500, Chris Marshall wrote: >> Hi- >> >> With respect to PDL module permissions for >> Tuomas Lukka, per his e-mail below, he has >> transferred all his modules to me. However, >> in trying to clean up outdated PDL releases >> from CPAN I can find no way to remove the >> old PDL releases from CPAN if submitted with >> another PAUSE account. >> >> Is there any way to remove the old PDL >> releases from CPAN so that new PDL users >> don't get confused? > > What specific confusion do you have in mind? We can in theory schedule > deletions for old releases but I'm loath to remove stuff from CPAN without > having a clear explanation of why - and thereby a clear path to remove as > little as possible to be as unintrusive as possible. >
The CPAN maintainers continually ask for previous releases to be removed from CPAN if they are not important or cause confusion. Every CPAN module ever uploaded is permanently available on backpan so removing a version from CPAN doesn't remove it forever. If you feel that it's important to have a particular version of a module to stay on CPAN then that's fine. In many cases though people continue to upload new versions without thinking about the old ones that are taking up space for the people mirroring CPAN (I'm guilty of that as well). Tim
