On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote:
> Hi Andy, Leon, Curtis, > > I’m emailing you wearing my PAUSE admin hat. I’m working through all the > situations where people have permissions on package names which differ only > in case. PAUSE used to not mind about this, but we’re changing that, since > it causes problems on operating systems with case-insensitive filesystems. > > Andy has first-come permissions on *TAP::Parser::Iterator::ARRAY*, which > is in the index against A/AN/ANDYA/TAP-Parser-0.51.tar.gz. > The latest version of TAP-Parser is 0.54, released in August 2007. I > noticed that includes TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array. Ovid and Leon have > co-maint on this. > > Andy also has first-come permissions (& Ovid and Leon have co-maint) > on TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array, which is in the index > against O/OV/OVID/Test-Harness-3.26.tar.gz, but the latest version is > 3.36, released by Leon in December 2015. > > So the latest version of neither module is indexed, and I’m guessing that > might be down to this permissions conflict. Also, the latest version of > both dists include TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array, and both distributions > have plenty of downstream dependencies on CPAN. There are a lot of other > modules in common between these dists, but I’m just looking at the > case-varying situations, so my script didn’t point those out to me. > > I have no noodling idea what the right solution is here, but would like us > to end up with zero or one package on CPAN that matches > /TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array/i. Can you suggest the path to > enlightenment please? > > Cheers, > Neil > As far as I know, TAP::Parser::Iterator::ARRAY became TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array. I'd suggest eliminating the former from the database. I thought I had emailed about that before (because indeed the indexer has been complaining about it). Leon
