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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] The Makefile.PL will now find .pm files itself.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:56:17 -0500
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Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On 2012.7.25 2:11 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Who are these comments in perl/Makefile.PL addressed to?
>
> Somebody adding, renaming or deleting a .pm file.
>
>> Why would such a person be looking at perl/Makefile.PL?
>
> Because sometimes they do wacky things

Not convincing at all. ;-)

But my made-up justification about people making other changes to
perl/Makefile.PL convinced me, so keeping the comments seems fine to
me now.

[...]
>                             For my purposes, I just preserved the comment.

That's what I feared and how cruft collects.  Sorry for the lack of
clarity.

Thanks,
Jonathan