On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 09:47:15PM +0000, Neil Bowers wrote:
> I’m one of the PAUSE admins, and I’m working through tidying up permissions 
> conflicts that have been caused by the fact that PAUSE now consider package 
> names case insensitively (due to case-insensitive filesystems, as on Windows 
> and MacOS X). PAUSE doesn’t let these situations occur now, but we have some 
> historical cases. I’m sorting these out so that we don’t need code in the 
> toolchain for dealing with permissions conflicts.

Thanks, Neil,

this conflict was bothering me for a long time, but I did not know how
to deal with it.

> Thomas (THOGEE) has first-come permissions on MP3::TAG::ID3v1 (which was 
> released as part of tagged 0.1 in 2000), and on MP3::Tag::ID3v1 (which was 
> released as part of MP3-Tag 1.13 by ILYAZ in September 2016). Ilya has 
> co-maint on both packages.
> 
> 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…

>    delete the tagged-0.1 release from Thomas’s author directory, just so 
> there’s no chance someone could pick up the wrong module

I would be very happy with this.

Yours,
Ilya

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