Hi again Frey, In November I emailed you: > 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.
Unless I hear otherwise, I’ll drop your permissions on MCrypt tomorrow. Please let me know if you’re happy for me to schedule deletion of your releases of MCrypt as well — I’m happy to do that for you. Cheers, Neil
