Hi Frey, In early September I emailed you: > 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. > > Frey has ownership of MCrypt (last released in 2000), and Theo has ownership > of Mcrypt (last released in 2007). These are now considered the same from a > permissions perspective, resulting in a conflict, which wouldn’t let anyone > release a new version. > > There are at least ways we can resolve this: > > 1. One of you could rename this to Crypt::MCrypt or similar > 2. I noticed that MCrypt won’t install under any recent versions of Perl: > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=MCrypt > So maybe the quickest solution would be to delete MCrypt from CPAN, > if Frey is ok with that? I can do that for you.
Frey, are you happy to delete your MCrypt distribution from CPAN, and to drop your permissions on the MCrypt namespace? If I don’t hear anything from you, I’ll drop your permissions on the namespace next week. Cheers, Neil
