Package: cpanminus Version: 1.7042-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
cpanminus embeds convenience copies of other modules. Outside of Debian, fatpacking other modules with cpanminus makes sense to help users install this tool (which is a package manager). THis avoid a catch22 issue. BUt in Debian context, all required modules are available as Debian packages and are installed with apt. So the fatpacked modules are needlessly duplicated. Providing cpanminus without fatpack can be done by either: - removing fatpacked part from the cpan tarball - create debian package from upstream git repo (where fatpack is not yet done, even if this repo contains convenience copies of the modules). All the best -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cpanminus depends on: ii curl 7.52.1-1 ii libcpan-distnameinfo-perl 0.12-1 ii libcpan-meta-check-perl 0.014-1 ii libfile-pushd-perl 1.014-1 ii liblocal-lib-perl 2.000019-1 ii libmodule-cpanfile-perl 1.1002-1 ii libparse-pmfile-perl 0.41-1 ii libstring-shellquote-perl 1.03-1.2 ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii perl-modules-5.24 [libversion-perl] 5.24.1~rc4-1 ii wget 1.18-4 cpanminus recommends no packages. cpanminus suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
