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Subject: Issues with VERSION migration in a module suite
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I just took over one of my older module suites (NetApp.pm, which is
actually about 20 distinct NetApp::* classes), and decided to change
the versioning scheme to match the style I'm using in all the rest of
my code.   In the older release, which was written back in 2008, I
used a per-file SVN Revision tag as the VERSION, which led to
per-module versions in the 100s.   The version of the distribution was
1.1.2, and I had been using v-strings for versions back in those days.

In all my newer code, I dropped the individual module versions, and I
use a single VERSION for the entire distro.  I updated the distro
version to 2.002, but PAUSE did NOT like this file when I uploaded it,
because all of the individual module versions appeared to decrease,
not increase.  Now, the 02packages.txt.gz data shows the problem:

NetApp                            2.002  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-2.002.tar.gz
NetApp::Aggregate              332.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Aggregate::Plex        203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Aggregate::RAIDGroup   203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Filer                  410.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Filer::Export          203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Filer::License         203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Filer::Option          203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Filer::TimeoutCache    334.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Filer::Version         203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Qtree                  334.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Snapmirror             275.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Snapmirror::Destination 203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Snapmirror::Source     203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Snapshot               275.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Snapshot::Delta        203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Snapshot::Schedule     203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Volume                 419.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz
NetApp::Volume::Source         203.000000  W/WP/WPMOORE/NetApp-1.1.2.tgz

There's an obvious solution here: make the distro version something
with a major version greater then 419, and then all of these will
increase, PAUSE will be happy, and I can keep moving forward.

However, is this the only solution?  Is there any way to convince
PAUSE that those older module versions didn't matter?

I suspect not, but before I jump from 1.1.2 to 2.002 and then 500.0001
(420.0001 is *very*, very tempting.... :-) I'd like to be sure there's
no other choice.