Hi Dave, > You can do what you need to with this. The Swig project continues to be > active, but I don't know if it's ever done much with CPAN. Not in recent > memory anyways.
Thanks for this. I’ll drop your permissions on the conflicting packages, and schedule deletion of the relevant releases. Cheers, Neil >> I’m one of the PAUSE admins. 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. >> >> Your “swig” distribution has a number of packages which are now in conflict >> with others: >> >> Your ownership of “example” conflicts with the “Example” module, owned by >> MSCHLUE >> >> Your ownership of “swig” conflicts with “SWIG”, owned by JASONS >> >> Your ownership of “swig” “text” conflicts with “TEXT” (SHERZODR) and “Text” >> (AKHOBOV). >> >> One way to resolve these permissions conflicts would be to rename your >> distribution, and then put all the other modules inside that namespace. >> >> But given your swig distribution was last released in 1998, and hasn’t >> worked with any recent versions of Perl, I suspect that the better and >> easier course of action is to delete the distribution from CPAN, and drop >> your permissions on the relevant namespaces. >> >> Would you be happy for me to do this on your behalf? >> >> PAUSE doesn’t let situations like this occur any more — I’m working to >> resolve the existing cases.
