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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
July 27, 2014 23:32
Subject:
Re: [perl #122416] Default MANIFEST.SKIP too aggressive about exclusions
Message ID:
CACBZZX7K2KY6u6g3zaJonB8OAHSBk-ig0vD5DjwBURfGxTwFFQ@mail.gmail.com
If it's checked per-dir then e.g. /\ACVS\z/, otherwise
/(?:${pathsep})?CVS\z/ should do.

Anyway I just filed this bug a long time ago as a "look what I found"
because I had a CVS.pm file. IIRC this was for Crypt::CVS.
On 27 Jul 2014 23:26, "James E Keenan via RT" <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
wrote:

>
> >
> > 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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