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Id: 115945
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Requestors: haarg [...] haarg.org
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Fixed in: 2.03-TRIAL

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  Thu Jul 07 10:31:43 2016 haarg [...] haarg.org - Ticket created
Subject: MYMETA.json will sometimes be decoded as YAML and treated as meta v1
If MYMETA.json contains something that can't be decoded by CPAN::Meta (via JSON::PP), CPAN.pm will try to decode it using the configured yaml_module. Some YAML parsers (YAML::Syck, YAML::XS, sometimes YAML::Any) will succeed in parsing the file. CPAN.pm will then treat the file as meta v1 data, and miss all of the prereqs. Instead, CPAN.pm should fall back to the MYMETA.yml file, or even parsing the Makefile. It may also be good to only use CPAN::Meta::YAML, Parse::CPAN::Meta, or CPAN::Meta for decoding META.yml/MYMETA.yml files, rather than whatever is configured for general YAML handling. This issue has led to a number of CPAN testers failure reports like the following: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/3cb1d41e-3d45-11e6-9fc5-14bfbd15da07 MYMETA.json decoding is failing in this case due to Unicode handling issues on early perl 5.8 versions that JSON::PP < 2.27400 runs into.
  Thu Jul 07 10:48:00 2016 haarg [...] haarg.org - Correspondence added
Note that while this was found based on issues limited to older versions of perl, there are other things that could prevent CPAN::Meta from parsing the MYMETA file, especially now that CPAN::Meta is learning to use alternate JSON backends.
  Thu Jul 07 11:27:38 2016 haarg [...] haarg.org - Correspondence added
Actually, it looks like this has been fixed. I thought I had verified with an up to date CPAN.pm, but I guess not.
  Thu Jul 07 11:27:43 2016 haarg [...] haarg.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'rejected'
  Thu Jul 07 15:23:47 2016 ether [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'rejected' to 'resolved'
  Thu Jul 07 15:23:47 2016 ether [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 2.03-TRIAL added