Well, if this something that FLORA will have to correct, or can someone
with administrative access to the CPAN metadata do this?
Should I be asking FLORA to do this? Just checking first, since I'm not
familiar with the process of handing over ownership of a CPAN module. I
gave away ownership of MQSeries years ago, and have no recollection of what
that entailed.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:19 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk>
wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 05:05:50PM -0400, Phillip Moore wrote:
>
> > Sometime in the last year, ownership of the bignum distro changed hands
> > from FLORA to PJACKLAM. On CPAN, FLORA's last release (bignum-0.32) is
> > still present along with PKACJLAM's new one (bignum-0.37).
> >
> > However:
> >
> > $ zgrep bignum mirror/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
> > bigint 0.32 F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
> > bignum 0.32 F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
> > bigrat 0.32 F/FL/FLORA/bignum-0.32.tar.gz
> > Math::BigFloat::Trace 0.36 P/PJ/PJACKLAM/bignum-0.37.tar.gz
> > Math::BigInt::Trace 0.36 P/PJ/PJACKLAM/bignum-0.37.tar.gz
> >
> > All 3 of the big* modules are indexed to the older FLORA release, not the
> > newer PJACKLAM release.
>
> It appears that FLORA didn't hand over ownership of big{int,num,rat} but
> only of Math::Big{Float,Int}::Trace.
>
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>
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