[perl #122421] Aborting 'make manifest' can leave you with a broken MANIFEST [cpan #3109]

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[Since ExtUtils-Manifest is now primarily maintained by Perl 5 Porters, I am moving this ticket here from https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=3109. -- jkeenan]


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July 31, 2003

Stopping 'make manifest' can leave you with a partially written MANIFEST file. Fortunately, you can restore from MANIFEST.bak. What should be done is a MANIFEST.new written and then the old MANIFEST copied to MANIFEST.bak and then MANIFEST.new renamed MANIFEST.
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[Do we still want to make this change?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan]

• [perl #122421] Aborting 'make manifest' can leave you with a broken MANIFEST [cpan #3109] by James E Keenan