Hi Greg, I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat: I’m working on resolving conflicts caused by PAUSE now considering package names case insensitively. This has left us with some situations where two or more people are owners of namespaces previously considered distinct, and now considered the same.
You have ownership of the “Variable” namespace, which was part of the 0.23 release of your Parse-Nibbler distribution (the latest release of which is 1.10). That release (0.23) has a number of modules which are no longer in the distribution, but because 0.23 is still in your CPAN author directory, they’re still appearing in the CPAN index. Your ownership of “Variable” now conflicts with ABIGAIL’s ownership of the “variable” namespace — they were previously considered separate, but now are treated as the same by PAUSE. To resolve this conflict, I propose dropping your permissions on the “Variable” namespace, and other package names that haven’t been used since the 0.23 release, and also deleting the older releases of Parse-Nibbler from your author directory. I don’t think these steps will cause any problems, but wanted to check — are you happy for me to do this please? PAUSE doesn’t let situations like this occur any more — I’m resolving the existing cases. Cheers, Neil
