Hi all,
I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m emailing you because 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.
One such case is the conflict between I18N::String (which BABF owns, and DRTECH
has co-maint on) and i18n::string (owned by AUDREYT, and four others have
co-maint). To resolve this, one of the package names needs to either be removed
from CPAN, or marked for non indexing. The immediately obvious options I can
see are:
1. The I18N-String distribution doesn’t appear to install on recent versions
of Perl,
or on many older Perls either. See:
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=I18N-String
So maybe the distribution can be deleted from CPAN and I drop drop the
permissions?
I notice that the module name has been marked for HANDOFF as well.
2. The i18n::string package is a “cuckoo package” defined in i18n.pm, in the
i18n distribution.
Given the public interface for i18n, I think it would be fine to hide the
i18n::string
from PAUSE (or you could rename it, of course).
Audrey, would you be happy to do a release, changing the package lines to:
package
i18n::string;
package
i18n::var;
PAUSE doesn’t let situations like this occur any more — I’m working through the
historical cases, resolving conflicts.
Cheers,
Neil
