Thank You Neil, I understand the issue more clearly now, thank you for addressing it at PAUSE. Will the PAUSE change propagate to CPAN and CPANTS? I'd like to also address the "*no_unauthorized_packages*" issues shown here (under "1 Extra Issue"):
https://cpants.cpanauthors.org/release/DYACOB/Date-Ethiopic-0.14 Please let me know if there is another admin that I should contact or if it will fix automatically. thanks again! -Daniel On Wed, Feb 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM Neil Bowers <ne...@neilb.org> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > I'm one of the PAUSE admins. > > If you re-read the error message from PAUSE, you'll see that it's > complaining that you don't have an indexing permission for the package > Date::Ethiopic > > You have indexing permissions for the other modules. > > If you don't have the indexing permission for the module name that > corresponds to the distribution name (i.e. Date::Ethiopic) then PAUSE won't > index any of the release. This is a security change introduced to PAUSE > some years after your last release :-) > > RBOW had co-maint on Date::Ethiopic, which is why PAUSE wouldn't give it > to you. > > I've dropped his co-maint, and will reindex your release. This should > result in PAUSE giving you first-come on Date::Ethiopic, and everything > will be happy. > > Neil > > On 5 Feb 2025 at 06:29 +0000, Daniel Yacob <ya...@geez.org>, wrote: > > Hello, > > I uploaded an update to Date::Ethiopic and received a permission conflict > error message from PAUSE: > > > *"This distribution name will only be indexed when uploaded by users with > permission for the package Date::Ethiopic ..."* > > I'm stumped on how to investigate and resolve the issue and am writing to > seek help. I made the original, and last, update to the package with v0.13 > nearly 22 years ago. According to the CPAN permissions report, I remain > the only user associated with the package (link and screenshot below). > > https://metacpan.org/dist/Date-Ethiopic/permissions > > Based on what I can observe, I think the permission conflict is itself an > error, can you investigate this, please? Any help would be appreciated > . > My user ID is DYACOB, and this email address is forwarded to via > dya...@cpan.org . > > thank you! > > -Daniel > > <Screenshot 2025-02-04 at 9.29.52 AM.png> > >
