Changes for version 2.011
- fixed support for filenames in MANIFEST containing characters meaningful to the regular expression engine e.g. c++
- now ignores comments in the MANIFEST
- Bug #2013: Rob replaced the eval() in get_meta() with a do() which fixes problems with Makefile.PLs that do eval()s and generally cleans up the code nicely
- renamed option --pkgname to --name and --nopkgprfx --no-prfx
- added options: --epoch, --buildrequires, --source
- several options now handle multiple instances
- made --requires, --provides and other "list" type options aggregatable such that users may pass these multiple times
- added --prologue and --epilogue for support of inserting arbitrary code to sections of the spec file
- the --doc option now supports a replacement mode, in addition to the normal additive mode
- all doc files now have their shebang fixed
- removed warning regarding MakeMaker versions
- added auto-upgrade funtionality (see --upgrade)
- enhancements to code that extracts author information from POD
- enhancements to --mk-rpm-dirs
- fixed bugs # 2071, 2061, 2054, 2045, 2044, 2013, 2010
- POD rearranged
- docs now encourage use of CPAN bug tracker
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A Perl module packager