>>>>> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 18:08:33 +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:05:06PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> Class::Fields ships a version of base.pm with bug fixes. It allows one >> to upgrade base.pm on older versions of perl. The CPAN >> 02packages.details.txt index is listing perl-5.8.0.tar.gz as the source >> for base causing dependency problems with some of my modules, most >> notably Class::Accessor. I've gotten almost a dozen bug reports of >> people unable to resolve the base.pm dependency. >> >> Could the CPAN index be altered so the base.pm in the Class-Fields >> tarball shows up rather than the one in perl-5.8.0? > I believe this is possible but since I don't know how to do it I'll > leave that to others :-) It's indeed not trivial how to do it. Some would call it convoluted:-( 1. use "View Permissions" to find out who owns it with which kind of permission. In this case it was TIMB with "first-come" permission. 2. Use "Select User/Action" to switch as TIMB to the "share_perms" action. 3. There you can, e.g. select the "Pass maintainership status to somebody else" button which I did. 4. The menu then lets you select the module to pass, and also lets you type in the new maintainer. I chose "base" and typed MSCHWERN. 5. Use again "Select User/Action" to switch as MSCHWERN to "reindex" 6. Select Class-Fields-0.14.tar.gz to be reindexed. -- andreas
