Cannot modify ownership after deleting all versions of a pod

[daveneff]

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I'm running into an issue in trying to take over the name of an existing pod, Coordinator. I reached out to the original owner to delete the pod so I could use it instead, but now neither of us are able to modify ownership.

What did you do?

1. The original owner deleted all versions of the existing pod.
2. I ran pod trunk push Coordinator.podspec to push the new podspec, but got the following error:

   [!] You {my email} are not allowed to push new versions for this pod. The owners of this pod are {original owner email}.

3. In response, the original owner ran pod trunk add-owner Coordinator {my email}, but received the following error:

   [!] No pod found with the specified name.

4. As a last resort, I tried to claim the pod but then got this error:

   Unknown Pod Coordinator

Now neither of us can modify ownership for Coordinator.

What did you expect to happen?

1. I expected that if all versions of Coordinator were deleted from the public specs repo, I would be able to create a new pod with the same name.
2. I expected that an additional owner could be added to a pod, as long as CocoaPods has the original owner information stored.

What happened instead?

The original owner now can't add me as an owner, since the pod can't be found, and I can't create a new pod because ownership is still attributed to the original owner.

CocoaPods Environment

Stack

   CocoaPods : 1.8.3
        Ruby : ruby 2.6.3p62 (2019-04-16 revision 67580) [universal.x86_64-darwin19]
    RubyGems : 3.0.3
        Host : Mac OS X 10.15.1 (19B88)
       Xcode : 11.3 (11C29)
         Git : git version 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2)
Ruby lib dir : /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib
Repositories : cocoapods - git - https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git @ b0b2783f5d420164672e30dc2c8c979be903e02f
               trunk - CDN - https://cdn.cocoapods.org/

Installation Source

Executable Path: /usr/local/bin/pod

Plugins

claide-plugins        : 0.9.2
cocoapods-deintegrate : 1.0.4
cocoapods-plugins     : 1.0.0
cocoapods-search      : 1.0.0
cocoapods-stats       : 1.1.0
cocoapods-trunk       : 1.4.1
cocoapods-try         : 1.1.0

[stale]

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[amorde]

Don't have any info to provide other than a guess this is a bug, unfortunately not super familiar with how the server portion of CocoaPods works