Bug#753934: perl: large inexplicable package size increase on amd64

[RjY]

Package: perl
Version: 5.18.2-5
Severity: minor

Installed-Size for perl on amd64 increased by over 4MB from -4 to -5.
As far as I understand all -5 is doing is adding some extra metadata
fields on s390x, so a 4MB increase seems unintentional at least.

% dpkg -c ./perl_5.18.2-4_amd64.deb | awk '{print $6,$3}' | sort > 1                                                                             
% dpkg -c /var/cache/apt/archives/perl_5.18.2-5_amd64.deb | awk '{print $6,$3}' | sort > 2
% join 1 2 | awk '$2!=$3 { print $3-$2,$0 }' | sort -n | column -t | tail -6
40960    ./usr/lib/perl/5.18.2/auto/Encode/JP/JP.so                 2746480  2787440
40960    ./usr/lib/perl/5.18.2/auto/Encode/KR/KR.so                 2410608  2451568
41774    ./usr/bin/perlbug                                          0        41774
57344    ./usr/lib/perl/5.18.2/auto/Encode/TW/TW.so                 2021488  2078832
2097152  ./usr/lib/perl/5.18.2/auto/Time/Piece/Piece.so             22784    2119936
2097216  ./usr/lib/perl/5.18.2/auto/Unicode/Collate/Collate.so      1249232  3346448

This appears to be the same issue as #750722, hence CC'ing. (Sorry, the
bts probably has a better way to specify this...)

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