Bug #106861 for Hash-MD5: inappropriate modules listed as prerequisites

Thu Sep 03 16:36:05 2015 ether [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

inappropriate modules listed as prerequisites

The following modules are listed as build prerequisites: "FindBin" : "0", "Pod::Coverage::TrustPod" : "0.100003", "Test::CheckManifest" : "0.9", "Test::More" : "0", "Test::Pod" : "1.22", "Test::Pod::Coverage" : "1.08" These appear to be only used in tests. The "build" phase is intended for things used by Makefile or Build; these should be moved to the test phase -- see https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Meta::Spec#Phases These prerequisites being listed as 'build' rather than 'test' means that they are being unnecessarily installed on systems that skip running tests, which bloats the dependency tree.

Wed Sep 09 03:21:52 2015 MZIESCHA [...] cpan.org - Taken

Wed Sep 09 03:22:35 2015 MZIESCHA [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Sep 10 01:24:43 2015 MZIESCHA [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Thu Sep 10 01:24:44 2015 MZIESCHA [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.06 added

Thu Sep 10 14:55:47 2015 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2015-09-03 13:36:05, ETHER wrote: Show quoted text

> The following modules are listed as build prerequisites: > > "FindBin" : "0", > "Pod::Coverage::TrustPod" : "0.100003", > "Test::CheckManifest" : "0.9", > "Test::More" : "0", > "Test::Pod" : "1.22", > "Test::Pod::Coverage" : "1.08" > > These appear to be only used in tests. The "build" phase is intended > for things used by Makefile or Build; these should be moved to the > test phase -- see https://metacpan.org/pod/CPAN::Meta::Spec#Phases > > These prerequisites being listed as 'build' rather than 'test' means > that they are being unnecessarily installed on systems that skip > running tests, which bloats the dependency tree.

This isn't fixed: - Digest::MD5, Exporter, and Scalar::Util are now listed as build prerequisites, but are not used at that phase (they should be runtime prereqs, under the PREREQ_PM key) - the Test::* modules are now listed as *runtime* prerequisites, which is just as bad -- these need to be declared as TEST_REQUIRES - the 0.06 and 0.07 releases don't even have a META.json, making static inspection of the distribution impossible. How are you releasing the distribution? you should be doing: perl Makefile.PL && make && make manifest && make dist cpan-upload Hash-MD5-0.08.tar.gz

Thu Sep 10 14:55:53 2015 ether [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'

Thu Sep 10 14:55:54 2015 ether [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.06 deleted

Sun Sep 13 03:26:01 2015 MZIESCHA [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Sun Sep 13 03:26:01 2015 MZIESCHA [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.08 added