>>>>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:30:43 +0000, Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Not sure who reads 'cpan-testers', but wanted to make sure you'd seen
> this. I've seen no comment yet - I'm hoping for some sort of assurance
> of safety before I compound the problem by uploading a v0.74.
I CC cpan-testers just in case the notifications from the PAUSE are
misunderstood by anybody.
> Hugo
> From: Hugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: CPAN Upload: HVDS/C-Scan-0.73.tar.gz
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:59:56 +0000
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PAUSE writes:
> :The uploaded file
> :
> : C-Scan-0.73.tar.gz
> :
> :has entered CPAN as
> :
> : file: $CPAN/authors/id/HVDS/C-Scan-0.73.tar.gz
> : size: 14092 bytes
> : md5: 24577ee8eb8438c6f138762a0399a430
> :
> :No action is required on your part
> :Request entered by: HVDS (Hugo van der Sanden)
> :Request entered on: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:37:19 GMT
> :Request completed: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:38:47 GMT
> :
> : Virtually Yours,
> : Id: paused,v 1.68 1999/10/22 14:39:12 k Exp k
This is an upload notification, not an approval. The purpose is to
enable controlling of what gets uploaded. Say, somebody steals your
password and tries to upload something: then you, me, and the testers
get this mail and you would alert the rest of us.
The watchdog on PAUSE is the indexer that works after the above
message has gone out. The indexer will not stop distribution of any
kind, its only weapon is to refuse indexing.
> Ho hum, I was expecting this to respond with an error, warning me that
> the name 'C::Scan' was already owned by Ilya, so that I could then
> follow up with a justification for the upload.
It should indeed be more helpful by feeding information to the
uploader, but it isn't. The reason is that it generates many false
positives with no serious consequences.
> I'm now worried that
> perhaps a) the 'name already owned' check does not work, and b) there
> may be problems for CPAN.pm or others in having a module with two
> owners.
Yes, there are uploads that contain modules owned by somebody else,
but they are not indexed.
> Note that I anticipate this is the only C::Scan release I will
> perform, and that future updates will come from Ilya again.
So, should your upload be indexed?
> The tarball does contain a brief README that will hopefully clarify
> these details for humans that read such things.
Looks to me as if the upload should be indexed. Please let me know
before the upload if I should add you to the upload permission list of
C::Scan.
--
andreas
