Hi Simon, Marcus, and Matt, At the start of October I emailed you and others about old releases of DBIx-Class appearing in the index, for modules which don’t have any indexing permissions. Half of the old releases have been deleted now.
Would you be happy to delete your old releases please? I can do this for you, if you like. If I do, you’ll get a confirmation email from PAUSE, and will have 72 hours to change your mind before PAUSE actually deletes the files. Why am I doing this? As PAUSE has evolved, the permissions model has changed, PAUSE now tries to ensure consistent permissions on all packages within a distribution, otherwise various problems can arise. I’m tidying up the historical baggage, so things are cleaner going forwards. Thanks, Neil On 1 Oct 2020, 22:58 +0100, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com>, wrote: > Hi Alexander, Andrew, Daniel, David, Marcus, Matt, and Simon, > > I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through situations where CPAN > distributions are appearing in the index, but have either split ownership of > packages in the distribution, or missing ownership. > > You have all done at least one release of DBIx-Class in the past, and still > have one or more of those old releases in your author directory on PAUSE. And > you all have at least one module that’s listed in the index against your old > release, because the module was subsequently dropped from the distribution. > The indexing permissions have been dropped on those packages, which is why > they’re now being flagged as orphans / zombies. > > Would you be happy to schedule deletion of your old releases from your author > directory please? This will resolve the permissions issue, but also remove > the theoretical potential for someone to install the wrong version. Some of > these releases are 15 years old! And remember: all releases ever made to CPAN > are always available via BackPAN. > > I can schedule the deletions for you, if that’s easiest — just let me know. > If I do that, you’ll get a confirmation email from PAUSE. > > Cheers, > Neil
