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Re: [PATCH] Add MYMETA.yml to perl/.gitignore

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Dec 1, 2011, 22:35 UTC
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<20111201223520.GB4869@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 09:31:15PM +0100, Sebastian Morr wrote:
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> This file is auto-generated in the process of building the Perl
> extension.
>
> [...]
> 
> I just built Git for the first time, issued "git status", and there
> was this untracked file. I guess you could call that an itch. This patch
> fixes that, however, I'm not sure whether this is a relevant issue.

Thanks, I wrote the same patch myself last week. I could swear I sent it to the list, but it appears that I forgot.

The only thing I would add is the reason this is suddenly coming up now: generating MYMETA.yml is done only by new-ish versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker (it started for me with perl 5.14, which just hit debian unstable recently). The file just contains extra information about the environment and arguments to the Makefile-building process, and can be safely deleted.

-Peff
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