BackupPC 3.2 and bundled perl libraries.

Hello,

I'm trying to help the BackupPC package maintainer for Fedora get the
new version released and we're having an issue[1].

To quickly summarize:
- BackupPC bundles two perl libraries: Net:FTP::AutoReconnect and RetrHandle.
- Fedora, like some other linux distros, discourages bundled libraries.
- RetrHandle seems to be broken[2] for all recent Perl versions . (Or
at least doesn't pass it's tests)

Therefore no BackupPC 3.2.x for Fedora.

Two questions:
1. Why was Net::FTP::RetrHandle used when it appears to be so broken?
2. Is there a problem with just removing the modules and shipping a
package without FTP support? Will that break anything? (other than the
obvious)

Thanks,
Richard

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627373#c7
[2] http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/N/Net-FTP-RetrHandle.html

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