Control: found -1 1.7040-1 Control: severity -1 serious -=| Dominique Dumont, 15.01.2017 19:59:44 +0100 |=- > 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).
What the current package does is to remove 33 unneeded fatpacked modules from the installed script (in bin/). (see debian/rules at [1]) [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/cpanminus.git/tree/debian/rules However, these aren't all the fatpacked modules. App::cpanminus::* modules are also fatpacked. Note that before version 1.7040, the fatpacked modules look like a mere copies of the original source. Since 1.7040 they have their white-space compressed, making them much less of a useful "source" and more like a minified javascript. What do others think? I am raising the severity to 'serious', but if you disagree, please revert. -- dam
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