From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:35:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add MYMETA.yml to perl/.gitignore
Message-ID: <20111201223520.GB4869@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111201203114.GA12796@thinkpad>

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 09:31:15PM +0100, Sebastian Morr wrote:

> 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