I happen to use two PAUSE ID's (old and new) and for the past 1.5 years have been uploading (using the new account) distributions that were once uploaded using the old account.

Haven't specifically looked into it, but I admit in my experience it's a bit weird sometimes. Sometimes (1) I just need to delete my distribution on the old account, wait a few minutes (not even need to wait 72 hours), and then the related packages would automatically be free and when I upload the distribution using the new account, I get "first-come" again. But sometimes (2) I do have to go to Change Permissions page from my old PAUSE account and explicitly give up primary maintainership before my new distribution on my new PAUSE account gets indexed.

Perhaps in the case of (1), the PAUSE admin was behind it?

In reply to Re^4: What if someone deleted his Perl modules? (cpan/pause unauthorized) by perlancar
in thread What if someone liberated his Perl modules? by perlancar

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