changing my email address on the package server?

je...@lisp.sh

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Dec 10, 2020, 12:44:41 AM12/10/20

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Is it possible to change my email address on the package server? It doesn't appear so, but perhaps I'm missing something. If not, what would be the recommended way of accomplishing an email change? I can create a new account, of course. But how to claim ownership of an existing package? Can one "abandon" a package with account X and "claim" the package with account Y?

Jesse

je...@lisp.sh

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Dec 10, 2020, 1:06:29 AM12/10/20

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It occurs to me that another approach here -- possibly a necessary one given the current setup of the package server -- would be to manually intervene. Presumably, it's possible for a package server admin to just manually associate a package with a certain account?

Jay McCarthy

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Dec 10, 2020, 9:06:52 AM12/10/20

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The expected thing for you to do is to

1. Create a new account

2. Add that new account as an author to the packages

3. Remove your old account as an author to the packages

If you want, though, I can do a search & replace in the database for you

Jay

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Tony Garnock-Jones

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Feb 18, 2021, 2:51:07 PM2/18/21

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We should* eventually decouple email from account-identity, so that after an *initial* introduction to the system, changing one's email address is straightforward to do. But we haven't done that yet and I don't have time to do it anytime soon, I'm afraid. So I think Jay's offer of a manual database rewrite is the way to go :-)

Tony

On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 6:44:41 AM UTC+1 je...@lisp.sh wrote:

je...@lisp.sh

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Feb 21, 2021, 2:16:13 PM2/21/21

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On Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 3:06:52 PM UTC+1 jay.mc...@gmail.com wrote:

The expected thing for you to do is to

1. Create a new account
2. Add that new account as an author to the packages
3. Remove your old account as an author to the packages

If you want, though, I can do a search & replace in the database for you

I followed the recipe; it works, thanks! I don't have very many packages, so doing shi took only a couple of minutes. No need to do a manual rewrite.

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