Bug #129946 for ExtUtils-MakeMaker:

Sat Jun 29 13:45:05 2019 pause [...] jubileegroup.co.uk - Ticket created

The 'veryclean' target does not remove backup files in second-level directories and below. For example I'm working on a new release of Sendmail::PMilter, which will have in the distribution the directories lib/ lib/Sendmail lib/Sendmail/PMilter When I run 'make veryclean' I'm left with backup files in lib/Sendmail and lib/Sendmail/PMilter (which is where I'm likely to have such files), although if I do put backup files in lib/ (it's most unlikely that I would do that of course) then they are deleted. If this is this intentional please ignore me - or better yet, please point me to the bit of the documentaion that I need to see. :)

Sun Jun 30 12:54:14 2019 ETJ [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

I thought I was knowledgeable about EUMM, but this is the first time I've heard of "veryclean"! You're quite right that it's supposed to do a "realclean", then remove extra stuff: https://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::MakeMaker#Distribution-Support As a workaround, would it be an acceptable outcome to just add in your Makefile.PL something like this? realclean => { FILES => '*.bak etc' },

Sun Jun 30 12:54:15 2019 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Sun Jun 30 13:51:37 2019 pause [...] jubileegroup.co.uk - Correspondence added

Subject:

'veryclean' target.

On Sun Jun 30 12:54:14 2019, ETJ wrote: Show quoted text

> I thought I was knowledgeable about EUMM, but this is the first time > I've heard of "veryclean"! You're quite right that it's supposed to do > a "realclean", then remove extra stuff: > https://metacpan.org/pod/ExtUtils::MakeMaker#Distribution-Support > > As a workaround, would it be an acceptable outcome to just add in your > Makefile.PL something like this? > > realclean => { FILES => '*.bak etc' },

Just thought I ought to mention it, I can live with it. :)