If it was just about not removing the files, that'd be easy, I solved that part in 15 minutes on Gentoo. Alas, the files are not even installed by a standard Makefile as produced by ExtUtils:MM when using the vendor_install target, so it doesn't seem only Debian's problem but intended behavior---with ExtUtils::MM being a core module I presume even some sort of official Perl policy. I'd be interested in why this is so and if I can/should circumvent it.

That is really hard to read/disgest.

I think you're wrong, I used make install_vendor and I got ../lib/perl5/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/auto/Foo/.packlist

Sure, I used install_base , and my config is 

$ perl -V:installvendor.*
installvendorarch='';
installvendorbin='';
installvendorhtml1dir='';
installvendorhtml3dir='';
installvendorlib='';
installvendorman1dir='';
installvendorman3dir='';
installvendorscript='';

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But that makes no difference 

$ md tempjunk

$ cd tempjunk

$ h2xs -AX Foo
Defaulting to backwards compatibility with perl 5.14.1
If you intend this module to be compatible with earlier perl versions,
+ please
specify a minimum perl version with the -b option.

Writing Foo/lib/Foo.pm
Writing Foo/Makefile.PL
Writing Foo/README
Writing Foo/t/Foo.t
Writing Foo/Changes
Writing Foo/MANIFEST

$ cd Foo

$ perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=..
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Foo
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json

$ dmake install_vendor
cp lib/Foo.pm blib\lib\Foo.pm
Installing ..\lib\perl5\Foo.pm
Appending installation info to ..\lib\perl5\MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/p
+erllocal.pod

$ gtree -f -a ..
..
|-- ../Foo
|   |-- ../Foo/Changes
|   |-- ../Foo/MANIFEST
|   |-- ../Foo/MYMETA.json
|   |-- ../Foo/MYMETA.yml
|   |-- ../Foo/Makefile
|   |-- ../Foo/Makefile.PL
|   |-- ../Foo/README
|   |-- ../Foo/blib
|   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/arch
|   |   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/arch/.exists
|   |   |   `-- ../Foo/blib/arch/auto
|   |   |       `-- ../Foo/blib/arch/auto/Foo
|   |   |           `-- ../Foo/blib/arch/auto/Foo/.exists
|   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/bin
|   |   |   `-- ../Foo/blib/bin/.exists
|   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/lib
|   |   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/lib/.exists
|   |   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/lib/Foo.pm
|   |   |   `-- ../Foo/blib/lib/auto
|   |   |       `-- ../Foo/blib/lib/auto/Foo
|   |   |           `-- ../Foo/blib/lib/auto/Foo/.exists
|   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/man1
|   |   |   `-- ../Foo/blib/man1/.exists
|   |   |-- ../Foo/blib/man3
|   |   |   `-- ../Foo/blib/man3/.exists
|   |   `-- ../Foo/blib/script
|   |       `-- ../Foo/blib/script/.exists
|   |-- ../Foo/lib
|   |   `-- ../Foo/lib/Foo.pm
|   |-- ../Foo/pm_to_blib
|   `-- ../Foo/t
|       `-- ../Foo/t/Foo.t
`-- ../lib
    `-- ../lib/perl5
        |-- ../lib/perl5/Foo.pm
        `-- ../lib/perl5/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
            |-- ../lib/perl5/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/auto
            |   `-- ../lib/perl5/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/auto/Foo
            |       `-- ../lib/perl5/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/auto/Foo
+/.packlist
            `-- ../lib/perl5/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/perllocal.pod

19 directories, 22 files

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Ball is in your court.

In reply to Re^3: Module packlists vs. vendors by Anonymous Monk
in thread Module packlists vs. vendors by mbethke

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