Re: A question of permissions

Hi Buddy,

> After I uploaded my new module Date::Easy a while back, I got a failure notice from PAUSE:

I only just noticed your email. PAUSE-related issues are better raised to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>, or you can send to both modules@ and module-authors.

>> This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for the
>> package Date::Easy, which you do not have. No modules will be indexed.
> 
> Of course, I had checked for that prior to uploading, but perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place.  My understanding was that the permissions would be listed here:
> 
> 	http://www.cpan.org/modules/06perms.txt
> 
> but I don't see Date::Easy listed there.  Is there somewhere else I should be looking?

I *think* that the problem is this line in your META.json file:

	"provides" : {},

If you include a “provides” section in your dist’s metadate, then PAUSE will take that as the definitive list of packages in your dist, and won’t look at the code.

And PAUSE now requires that a dist includes a package where the name matches the dist name (ie dist Date-Easy should have a module Date::Easy), but there wasn’t such a module listed in “provides”, hence the warning.

I’ll raise a ticket on PAUSE, as I think it could be more helpful when the provides block is empty.

Cheers,
Neil