What if someone liberated his Perl modules?

There is a recent event where a Node.js developer decided to unpublish all of his 250 or so modules on npmjs.org (including some very popular modules, causing large breakage) following a corporate takedown notice for one of his modules. The ensuing HN discussion thread highlights a security issue where a malicious author could upload a malicious update to a previously existing (but then unpublished) module. I'm wondering how such issue is handled in the Perl (CPAN) community.

Calling deleting/removing your modules "liberation" is clownshoes; ok the guy called it that, but you're not that guy right? :P

CPAN/PAUSE is first come first serve

Once you register a namespace it is yours, even if you delete all releases, all other uploaders are "unauthorized"

It takes human intervention to make someone elses upload "authorized"

See http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#takeover

I didn't read the rest of your post

In reply to Re: What if someone deleted his Perl modules? (cpan/pause unauthorized) by Anonymous Monk
in thread What if someone liberated his Perl modules? by perlancar

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