Hi Chris & Ashley, I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working on resolving situations where there are split and/or missing indexing permissions on CPAN distributions, and where there is conflict between two or more distributions. These came about historically for a number of reasons, including (1) packages were treated case insensitively, but we then realised that caused problems, and (2) when co-maints did releases, they’d get first-come on new packages, so you’d get split ownership, and if one of the owners transferred, then it could become a mess.
Chris, you have both Qt and Qt4 on CPAN. Most of the permissions have been dropped on the packages in Qt, and the contents of the two distributions are similar enough that I suspect Qt4 was meant as a successor to Qt? If that’s true, it looks like we could delete your Qt release from your author directory, which will remove it from CPAN? There are some packages in the index again the older release Qt4-0.60_b1.tar.gz which have no indexing permissions. Deleting that release, and leaving just the latest release, will clear up most if not all of the indexing permission issues on Qt. Ashley, some parts of your early releases of "Qt" are indexed, but it looks like you then renamed your Qt distribution to be PerlQt, and PerlQt was subsequently taken over by Germain Garand (GGARAND) — is that right? If so, then we could delete the early releases of Qt from your directory, and probably the early releases of PerlQt, since they’ve been superseded by Germain’s releases. Are you both ok with me scheduling deletion of your old releases please? That will resolve some if not all of the problems. If I go ahead, you’d both get confirmation from PAUSE when I schedule the deletion, and the deletion itself wouldn’t happen for 3 days (72 hours), so you have a chance to change your mind as well. Thanks, Neil
