I have no idea to what extent this is official, but GitHub is not updating any Perl package in the GitHub action runners. This is the current response to a request to post back LWP::protocol::https which was there before, but vanished, needing an installation that takes a good amount of time.

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Add LWP::Protocol::https · Issue #10567 · actions/runner-images

Tool name LWP::Protocol::https Tool license Artistic Add or update? Add Update Desired version latest Approximate size No response Brief description of tool Runners already include LWP::Simple and ...

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