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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+#
+# This will fix up the distribution so that CPAN properly
+# indexes Thrift.
+#
+
+use 5.10.0;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use utf8;
+
+use Data::Dumper;
+use CPAN::Meta;
+
+my $meta = CPAN::Meta->load_file('META.json');
+$meta->{'provides'} = { 'Thrift' => { 'file' => 'lib/Thrift.pm', 'version' => $meta->version() } };
+$meta->save('META.json');