Starting with PAUSE, I have uploaded several new modules to PAUSE. Each time, I get a message that says:

This distribution name can only be used by users with permission for the package <My::Package>, which you do not have.

The packages are in new namespaces. As I understand it, simply uploading a new module should allocate that namespace to me on a "first-come" basis. But it isn't.

This doesn't seem to matter to search.cpan.org, when it's working: it still indexes the module so that it can be found and downloaded via the cpan utility.

However that doesn't seem to apply to metacpan. It uses 02packages.details.txt which isn't being updated, presunably because of the PAUSE issue. Thus my modules are not appearing on metacpan in their search. Metacpan's help says:

MetaCPAN uses the PAUSE generated 02packages.details.txt file. If it's not in there, then the module author will need to fix this,

Does anyone know if it's fixable? I have mailed modules@perl.org a couple of times but no response.

In reply to search.cpan.org, metacpan and PAUSE all broken in different ways? by Sixes

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