On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 10:59:53PM +0000, Neil Bowers wrote: > > this conflict was bothering me for a long time, but I did not know how to > > deal with it. > > There are few niggly things like this lurking in the shadows of CPAN :-)
Do I understand it correctly that OTHER dark sides of CPAN should be discussed on modu...@cpan.org? > >> I suspect that the right way to resolve this is: > >> drop all your permissions on MP3::TAG::ID3v1 > > > > What is the purpose of this? It does not look that this package may revive > > by chance… > > PAUSE won’t let this sort of conflict happen in the future. If you > >> tried to do it now, you’d first have to drop all permissions on > >> the existing namespace, before you could get the new package > >> name indexed. What bothers me about this UI is that it is not self-documenting. “To unindex a distribution, drop all permissions on this distribution” — how would people DISCOVER this recipe? Ilya
