I've been using Dist::Zilla with great success, though have never delved into its internals. It's always been good enough for my needs. Recently I upgraded from dzil 2.x to the new 4.x. There are some lingering problems/annoyances, would appreciate if fellow monks could give pointers to solutions.

* dzil no longer exclude backup files (*~), so these files end up in the distribution (causing build problems if the backup files are removed prior to building). I've looked into DZP::PruneCruft and DZP::PruneFiles but they both do not seem to allow simple excluding of *~ files.

* files in bin/* are now also required to have package declaration. I couldn't find a way to disable this behaviour, so currently I add 'package main;' to my binary files.

* the last thing is not new, I've been seeing this warning/error message for a while: @Filter/PodVersion couldn't find '=head1 VERSION' in foo, not adding '=head1 VERSION', and I didn't understand the meaning of this, since the '=head1 VERSION' did got added by dzil.

In reply to A few problems with new Dist::Zilla (from 2.x to 4.x) by dgaramond2

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