A "use" statement for a Makefile.PL is for the minimum Perl version support
by the installer, NOT for the module itself.
But I get your point.
On 04/11/2007, via RT <bug-Task-Weaken@rt.cpan.org> wrote:
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> Sat Nov 03 12:11:30 2007: Request 30444 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by DAGOLDEN
> Queue: Task-Weaken
> Subject: Weak referendes not available on perl < 5.006
> Broken in: (no value)
> Severity: Normal
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: DAGOLDEN@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30444 >
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> Weak references were only introduced in 5.006. So you can shortcut the
> whole process (plus have yourself get NA test reports instead of FAIL on
> 5.005) if you just add "use 5.006;" to the top of the Makefile.PL
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