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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
July 27, 2014 23:26
Subject:
[perl #122416] Default MANIFEST.SKIP too aggressive about exclusions
Message ID:
rt-4.0.18-14924-1406503593-783.122416-15-0@perl.org

> 
> The default MANIFEST.SKIP includes rules like these:
> 
> # Avoid version control files.
> \bRCS\b
> \bCVS\b
> \bSCCS\b
> 
> This erroneously matches input like:
> 
> lib/Library/CVS.pm
> lib/Library/RCS.pm
> lib/Library/SCCS.pm
> 
> Those systems will never produce CVS.pm files, so just checking for \b
> is an error.

Avar (or anyone),

Can you suggest a more tightly defined pattern?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan

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