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Changes for version 2.028

  • added docs about using proxies
  • Nahant now supported
  • final slashes in main directory listing of a tarball may or may not be there. thanks to Stephen More for the patch.
  • added patch to enable LWP support the various proxy environment variables. Thanks to Christophe Beauregard (chris.beauregard@ec.gc.ca>from Canada for providing this one-liner
  • More general fetch method validator.
  • Allow cached URLs detected from CPAN to still auto-sniff out the author information from the URL. Ex: cpan2rpm Class::AccessorOB
  • this fixes rt.cpan.org ticket #11606 regarding a broken --description. Thanks to Bill Williams for reporting this.

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