Sign the dist as the last step before creating the archive. Take care not to modify/regenerate dist meta files or the manifest.

Error: Old SIGNATURE detected. Please inform the module author to regenerate SIGNATURE using Module::Signature version 0.82 or newer. gpg: Signature made Wed 26 Dec 2007 05:57:43 PM JST gpg: using DSA key 58CA219610F54327 gpg: Can't check signature: No public key --- SIGNATURE Wed Dec 26 17:58:11 2007 +++ @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ SHA1 35864015a5f243108c16fbbf55d6e7dcfcb1e6bd src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/cmdline/theta.bin SHA1 071011573e559e4a72d829665948fd68dcfe6ebd src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/cmdline/trans_tests.py SHA1 306c664b4cdf8a277bfb9342b2ffce0c4ada9a9c src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/cmdline/update_tests.py -SHA1 4deb4c4f9009fab0ba855a393d934e5cb09ea4c3 src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/cmdline/update_tests_data/checkout_broken_eol.dump +SHA1 24bed8d632c30bba56d2f13eee636dd789a24432 src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/cmdline/update_tests_data/checkout_broken_eol.dump SHA1 33a83f73cefaf68a39d38d3bf890c9d8126ca5c1 src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/cmdline/utf8_tests.py SHA1 c30248f3cbb02f513f0c580167c78116128382e6 src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/greek-tree.txt SHA1 5dec9607769209d9c9ef18302b496ae275f86a00 src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/tests/libsvn_delta/delta-window-test.h ==> MISMATCHED content between SIGNATURE and distribution files! <==

Add a META.json to the distribution. Your buildtool should be able to autogenerate it.

Add tests or move tests.pl to the t/ directory!

Move your *.pm files in a directory named 'lib'. The directory structure should look like 'lib/Your/Module.pm' for a module named 'Your::Module'. If you need to provide additional files, e.g. for testing, that should not be considered for Kwalitee, then you should look at the 'provides' map in META.yml to limit the files scanned; or use the 'no_index' map to exclude parts of the distribution.

Error: src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Base.pm, src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Client.pm, src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Core.pm, src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Delta.pm, src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Fs.pm, src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Ra.pm, src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Repos.pm, src/subversion-1.4.5/subversion/bindings/swig/perl/native/Wc.pm

Add 'use warnings' (or its equivalents) to all modules, or convince us that your favorite module is well-known enough and people can easily see the modules warn when something bad happens.

Error: Alien::SVN

Split the distribution, or fix the version numbers to make them consistent (use the highest version number to avoid version downgrade).

Error: 1.4.5,1.4.5.3

Add a 'repository' resource to the META.yml via 'meta_add' accessor (for Module::Build) or META_ADD parameter (for ExtUtils::MakeMaker).

This is not a critical issue. Currently mainly informative for the CPANTS authors. It might be removed later.