On 28 November 2011 16:32, David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > There's no way to just change the ID as far as I know (short of > mucking directly with the production DB) and it would cause several > problems as the old distributions are stored on BackPAN under the > original distributing author ID. > > Transferring ownership is the way to go. Look at this page (using the > *old* ID): > > https://pause.perl.org/pause/authenquery?ACTION=share_perms > > Sounds like you want option 2.1 -> "Pass primary maintainership status > to somebody else (giving it up at the same time)" > > Then you'll want to delete the distributions (in the old ID account), > bump the version numbers up and then upload the new distribution with > the new version number from the new account. Please don't try to > upload the old distribution tarballs - that might not index properly > and it can potentially confuse some tools that expect that a > distribution name is unique on CPAN (even though it's not true, it's > true 99% of the time). >
Thanks for the explanation, Dave Robbie
