Hi Tobias, I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admins hat. 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.
You have first-come permissions on both SDL::CDROM and SDL::Cdrom. SDL::CDROM is in your latest release of SDL, 2.546 (from April 2015), but it isn’t listed in the CPAN Index. Instead, SDL::Cdrom is listed in the index against the K/KT/KTHAKORE/SDL_Perl-v2.2.6.tar.gz release (by Kartik Thakore in November 2009. I’ve copied Kartik on this email). To resolve this conflict, it looks like the right thing to do would be to drop your first-come permission and the co-maint permissions (DGOEHRIG and WKEENAN) on SDL::Cdrom. Are you happy for me to do these actions on your behalf? Also, Kartik, would you be happy to delete all your old releases of SDL and SDL_Perl-v* please? That would not only reduce the likelihood of confusion, but reduce CPAN’s footprint! :-) I can schedule the deletion of those old releases for you, if you’d like? Cheers, Neil
