Hi. I'm the current maintainer of Digest::SHA2. I'm aware that I can log into PAUSE and delete my uploads, but then the CPAN will fall back on the previous maintainer's uploads.
The module has been deprecated since 2007. Below is an E-mail exchange with the original maintainer (JCDUQUE) where he agrees that deleting his uploaded versions is just fine. He's forgotten his PAUSE password so he can't do it himself. If you could kindly delete the ones he uploaded I could log into PAUSE and delete mine, which would remove it from the CPAN, thank you. I'm aware that the module still has some reveres dependencies. I've filed bugs against all the distributions that currently use it, and will give them time to migrate before deleting the module from my PAUSE account. Thanks! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jcduque <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Is it OK with you if Digest::SHA2 is deleted from the CPAN? To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> Hi, Thanks for contacting me. Yes, please delete my module Digest::SHA2. I can't remember my password in PAUSE already. Regards, On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there. A long time ago I took over Digest::SHA2 from you, as a > module it's been deprecated for years now (since 2007). > > I just got a bug report for it now, and wanted to respond by just > deleting it from the CPAN. > > But if I do that it'll just fall back to your old versions. > > Would you be OK with them being deleted? If you could login to > PAUSE.perl.org and do that yourself that would be awesome so I could > do it too afterwards, if not I could ask the CPAN admins to do it. -- "The difference between losers and winners is that losers don't fail enough." -- Ross Jeffries
