Bug #59350 for PadWalker: dot files in released source tarball

Wed Jul 14 01:54:01 2010 salvatore.bonaccorso [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	dot files in released source tarball
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:53:49 +0200
To:	bug-PadWalker [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonaccorso [...] gmail.com>

Hi The released 1.91 source tarball for PadWalker contains some dot-files: -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2010-07-14 02:07 PadWalker-1.91/._Changes -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2008-02-04 10:51 PadWalker-1.91/._Makefile.PL -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2010-07-14 02:08 PadWalker-1.91/._PadWalker.pm -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2010-07-14 02:09 PadWalker-1.91/._README -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-08-08 17:24 PadWalker-1.91/t/._bar.pl -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-13 13:36 PadWalker-1.91/t/._baz.pl -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-07 18:46 PadWalker-1.91/t/._dm.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-13 14:58 PadWalker-1.91/t/._foo.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-07 18:45 PadWalker-1.91/t/._our.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-08-09 17:26 PadWalker-1.91/t/._recurse.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-07 18:17 PadWalker-1.91/t/._sub.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-08-16 16:18 PadWalker-1.91/t/._test.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-06 17:27 PadWalker-1.91/t/._tt.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-13 14:58 PadWalker-1.91/t/._var_name.t -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-13 14:54 PadWalker-1.91/t/._vn-inc-1.pl -rw-r--r-- robin/staff 197 2005-10-13 14:56 PadWalker-1.91/t/._vn-inc-2.pl Would it be possible to re-release PadWalker without containing these dot-files? Many thanks for consideration! Bests and thanks for your work Salvatore

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Wed Jul 14 06:29:40 2010 james2vegas [...] aim.com - Correspondence added

This is not a mere aesthetic concern, the presence of these files breaks the build (at least on perl 5.8.9 on freebsd):

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Manifying blib/man3/PadWalker.3
/usr/local/bin/perl "-Iblib/arch" "-Iblib/lib" ._Makefile.PL ._Makefile
Unrecognized character \x05 in column 2 at ._Makefile.PL line 1.
*** Error code 255

Wed Jul 14 06:29:41 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Wed Jul 14 09:39:46 2010 GRUBER [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

And this is not the first time this happens to this distribution. :-/

Sun Jan 20 05:51:41 2013 porten [...] froglogic.com - Correspondence added

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porten [...] froglogic.com

Problem not present in version 1.96 anymore. Bug report can be closed I'd say.