[rt.cpan.org #109805] META.yml/json should be present

[email protected] ("Johan Vromans via RT") Thu, 3 Dec 2015 07:11:39 -0500
Newsgroups perl.makemaker
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<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=109805 >

This kit was generated on a freshly installed Fedora 22 system. The most recent version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker available (7.04) was installed. However, this setup does not generate META.* files.

It turns out that EU::MM requires CPAN::Meta to generate these files. If CPAN::Meta is not installed, EU::MM silently(!) skips generating these files.

However, EM::MM documents CPAN::Meta as optional, and therefore the Fedora package maintainer sees no reason to add it as a requirement for the EU::MM package.

From here on it's a standoff that I am not part of. If the current CPAN policy wants kits to have META.* files, then the EU::MM maintainer should stop documenting CPAN::Meta as optional and add it as a requirement.