[cpanminus] 01/01: extend the note in d/watch explaining why github is used as a source of original tarballs in the first place

[Damyan Ivanov]

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commit 4456f3e1a52420532ecc472f3eae421be9280201
Author: Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Dec 10 11:15:04 2017 +0000

    extend the note in d/watch explaining why github is used as a source of original tarballs in the first place
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 debian/watch | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
index c2c0453..074cbbf 100644
--- a/debian/watch
+++ b/debian/watch
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ version=3
 # download tarball from Github (with a sane name).
 # Rationale: Github also contains beta versions
 # with higher numbers.
+# CPAN versions are fatpacked (whitespace-compression) which makes them not the
+# "original source" (See #851506)
 
 opts="downloadurlmangle=s%.*/App-cpanminus-v?(\d[\d.-]+)\.(?:tar(?:\.gz|\.bz2)?|tgz|zip)$%https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/archive/$1.tar.gz%, \
       filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?v?(\d[\d.-]+)\.tar\.gz%cpanminus-$1.tar.gz%" \

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