Bug#851506: cpanminus embeds other modules in fatpacked library

[Dominique Dumont]

Package: cpanminus
Version: 1.7042-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

cpanminus embeds convenience copies of other modules.

Outside of Debian, fatpacking other modules with cpanminus makes sense
to help users install this tool (which is a package manager). THis
avoid a catch22 issue.

BUt in Debian context, all required modules are available as Debian
packages and are installed with apt. So the fatpacked modules are
needlessly duplicated.

Providing cpanminus without fatpack can be done by either:
- removing fatpacked part from the cpan tarball
- create debian package from upstream git repo (where fatpack
  is not yet done, even if this repo contains convenience
  copies of the modules).

All the best

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cpanminus depends on:
ii  curl                                 7.52.1-1
ii  libcpan-distnameinfo-perl            0.12-1
ii  libcpan-meta-check-perl              0.014-1
ii  libfile-pushd-perl                   1.014-1
ii  liblocal-lib-perl                    2.000019-1
ii  libmodule-cpanfile-perl              1.1002-1
ii  libparse-pmfile-perl                 0.41-1
ii  libstring-shellquote-perl            1.03-1.2
ii  perl                                 5.24.1~rc4-1
ii  perl-modules-5.24 [libversion-perl]  5.24.1~rc4-1
ii  wget                                 1.18-4

cpanminus recommends no packages.

cpanminus suggests no packages.

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