Bug#851506: cpanminus embeds other modules in fatpacked library

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Sun Dec 10 13:04:49 UTC 2017


-=| gregor herrmann, 09.12.2017 19:55:02 +0100 |=-
> Right, fatpacked and minimized modules are most probably a serious
> bug, and going the github-route seems sensible.
> 
> So I've done this now and pushed some rather drastic changes to our
> repo on Alioth.

Thanks!

> Please review/improve/revert before I upload.

The result is pretty impressive, eliminating both fatpacked bundled 
libraries from the cpanm script as installed by the binary package.

I just added a short note to d/watch trying to explain why the 
downloading is dome from github instead of cpan.


Cheers,
    dam



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