<URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=109805 >
On 2015-12-03 17:58:06, CHORNY wrote: > 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)
