Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Require author Signed-off-by

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 10 2018 - 10:33:54 EST


On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 14:10 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Print an error if none of the Signed-off-by lines cover the patch
> author.
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ use POSIX;
> use File::Basename;
> use Cwd 'abs_path';
> use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
> +use MIME::Words 'decode_mimewords';

Is this a typically installed perl module?
If so, what perl version installed it by default?