On 02/07/2017 11:12 PM, Neil Bowers wrote:
> Hi Loïc,
> 
> I’m one of the PAUSE admins. I’m working through tidying up permissions 
> conflicts that have been caused by the fact that PAUSE now consider package 
> names case insensitively (due to case-insensitive filesystems, as on Windows 
> and MacOS X). PAUSE doesn’t let these situations occur now, but we have some 
> historical cases. I’m sorting these out so that we don’t need code in the 
> toolchain for dealing with permissions conflicts.
> 
> You have first-come permissions on both “URIC" and “uric”, and both packages 
> are used in your URIC distribution. This was last released in 1998, and 
> doesn’t install on any recent versions of Perl:
>       http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=URIC+2.02
> 
> Perhaps the best way to resolve this would be to delete the URIC-2.02.tar.gz 
> release from CPAN, and drop all the associated permissions. If you’re ok with 
> this, I could do those steps on your behalf.
> 
> Are you happy for me to do this?

Hi Neil,

I'm happy to drop URIC from CPAN. The world has changed in the past 20 years 
and this piece of code most probably lived longer than it should have :-)

Thanks !

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre

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