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In CPAN, is it possible for two different modules to ever share the same tar.gz file name but different authors?
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For example, there is a module: Text-Repository-1.04.tar.gz. It resides in $CPAN/authors/id/D/DA/DARREN/Text-Repository-1.04.tar.gz.
Is it possible for a different Text-Repository-1.04.tar.gz to ever reside in some other author's directory and be a different module, or are there safeguards in place to prevent this?
<p>I did parse 02packages.details.txt.gz looking for cases where a file name appeared in multiple author directories, but the only one I could find where this had occurred was
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HTML-Summary-0.017.tar.gz
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which appears in both
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A/AW/AWRIGLEY/HTML-Summary-0.017.tar.gz
and
T/TG/TGROSE/HTML-Summary-0.017.tar.gz
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However, further investigation reveals that the contents of these files are identical.