Bug #109805 for Getopt-Long: META.yml/json should be present

Fri Nov 27 13:40:05 2015 CHORNY [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

From:	CHORNY [...] cpan.org
Subject:	META.yml/json should be present

CPAN distributions should contain files META.yml and META.json. They are generated by your build tool when creating distribution. Build tool for JV/Getopt-Long-2.48.tar.gz was detected as ExtUtils::MakeMaker. Please upgrade it to latest version. You can create your distribution with these files using `make dist` (dmake on Windows). If you use VCS, you can show link to it on Metacpan and search.cpan.org. See http://perlmaven.com/how-to-add-link-to-version-control-system-of-a-cpan-distributions P.S. If this report is for an old version, please delete old indexed versions mentioned here: http://cpanold.chorny.net/?a=JV and contact me. P.P.S. This report was generated automatically.

Thu Dec 03 07:11:38 2015 jv [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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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.

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Thu Dec 03 17:58:06 2015 CHORNY [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Dec 03 07:11:38 2015, JV wrote: Show quoted text

> 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.

In most cases, CPAN::Meta is not needed for EU::MM to install modules, AFAIK it is only needed for module authors. And currently CPAN::Meta is a core module. Also, EU::MM bundles CPAN::Meta - EU::MM cannot have many prerequisites as they need EU::MM themselves. If you look at https://metacpan.org/source/BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.10/README.packaging and https://metacpan.org/source/BINGOS/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.10/Makefile.PL#L49 - when "building as package" environment variable is set, CPAN::Meta is mandatory. Show quoted text

> > 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.

-- Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net

Fri Dec 04 02:25:31 2015 jv [...] cpan.org - Cc ppisar added

Wed Jan 27 15:35:56 2016 ether [...] cpan.org - Severity Important added

Fri Jan 29 15:40:33 2016 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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On 2015-12-03 17:58:06, CHORNY wrote: Show quoted text

> On Thu Dec 03 07:11:38 2015, JV wrote:

> > 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.

> > In most cases, CPAN::Meta is not needed for EU::MM to install modules, > AFAIK it is only needed for module authors.

So fail only if the module author runs "make dist"? (which shouldn't affect normal users just installing modules)

Fri Jan 29 18:01:36 2016 jv [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Yes, fail only if "make dist" is executed while CPAN::Meta is not installed. EU::MM does not require CPAN::Meta (nor does it warn of some sort) when "make dist" is executed w/o CPAN::Meta. So the bottom line is that EU::MM allows dists to be created that do not match the current CPAN requirements. Although I can (and probably will) work around this, I persist in my opinion that it is EU::MM that needs fixing.

Thu Jun 29 10:03:16 2017 jv [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Thu Jun 29 10:03:16 2017 jv [...] cpan.org - Taken

Thu Jun 29 10:03:16 2017 jv [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 2.49 added