in reply to CPAN testers and META.yml

The bottom of the report includes the following:

Module Need Have --------------------- ----- -------- Cwd 0 3.74 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.36 7.35_03 File::Find 0 1.29 File::Slurp 0 9999.19 File::Spec::Functions 0 3.74 Test::Compile 0 v1.3.0 Test::More 0 1.302137 UNIVERSAL::require 0 0.18 URI::Escape 0 3.31

So they do have File::Slurp installed. Unless you're seeing this same error with a lot of testers, it might have just been a one-off problem on that particular person's computer, like a corrupt hard drive or something.