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                                            Graham Knop

makerel should always set --format=ustar

No, just based on things I've seen making perl or CPAN releases.

makerel should always set --format=ustar

This was implemented with #22273

Make Data::Dumper boolean aware.

Because nobody has done the work to release it yet. This will only be relevant for 5.36, but it would be nice to do.

makerel: always use ustar format

Fixes #22245

makerel: always use ustar format

All of the tar implementations we care about support `--format=ustar`. Producing an empty tarball requires a rather specific system setup that is not common. It's something I ran into before,...

clang-14 build-time-warnings in Compress::Raw::*

pmqs/Compress-Raw-Bzip2#15 addresses this, so it should be fixed in the next Compress-Raw-Bzip2 release.

A new model to manage who_pumpkin on PAUSE

Why does PAUSE need to remember which releases were authorized? PAUSE only uses the data when indexing new stable releases. An old stable release isn't treated any differently than an...

A new model to manage who_pumpkin on PAUSE

MetaCPAN checks permissions at index time and stores those. It does the same for normal CPAN releases. It doesn't use historical data.

POSIX::strftime() returns empty string if format contains UTF-8 characters

Reverting this to the old behavior for the `C` locale seems reasonable to me. There should probably be a warning for the unsafe cases that return an empty string.

incompatibility of package-block and DATA

Everything here is working as expected, and I don't think there's anything worth changing. `__DATA__` is inherently a file-based feature, and trying to make it interact with inner lexical scopes...