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Id: 52999
Status: new
Priority: 0/
Queue: checkbot

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Owner: hans [...] degraaff.org
Requestors: ANDK [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.80
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Undeclared dependencies
While the Makefile.PL talks politely to the user and tells him one dependency after the other the standard way of doing this would be to declare the dependencies in WriteMakefile( PREREQ_PM => ... ). The PREREQ_PM parameter would then be passed through the whole toolchain that usually cares for installing modules and the prerequisites would then get installed without much human intervention. Given that most test reports on cpantesters a report failing tests I'd recommend to take the route of PREREQ_PM at least for all modules that if missing lead to failing tests. Thanks,