I'm a new CPAN author - just uploaded first two modules a few days ago. My chagrin at seeing complete FAILure on the first CPAN Testers reports was mollified somewhat when I determined that the main problems were not with my module code but with minor issues in the MANIFEST file (in one module) and in the Makefile.PL (in the other). My question is two-fold:

(1) It seems silly to bump the version number of a module just because of an edit to the MANIFEST. However, I can't just re-upload a module with the same version number. What is the proper way to deal with this situation (other than being more careful in the first place).

(2) If I upload a development version to CPAN (version number ending in "_\d+") will it still be tested by CPAN Testers? If so, clearly this would have avoided the current situation for me.

In reply to CPAN module versioning for slight changes by jdv

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