CC: | ether [...] cpan.org |
Subject: | Please repackage the tarball without PAX headers (for portability) |
The current version of Sub::Identify (0.09) was shipped with a tarball containing extended PAX metadata which trips up bin/cpan on installations with Archive::Tar older than 1.74, by confusing EUMM to recursively attempt to execute the PAX-containing file named Makefile.PL
For the issue to manifest an older version of Archive::Tar needs to combine with an older version of CPAN.pm, hence why there hasn't been much fallout from this. Incidentally this condition is present on freshly brewed perl 5.12.*.
A::T bug in question: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=64038
Sample failcase: https://s3.amazonaws.com/archive.travis-ci.org/jobs/45668653/log.txt