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 Tue 11 May 2010 07:42:21 AM JST gpg: using DSA key AD05796B080ABA07 gpg: Can't check signature: No public key --- SIGNATURE Tue May 11 07:42:39 2010 +++ @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ SHA1 efa8cb615886410be8de15f5a6925697f624d278 INSTALL SHA1 cf6a392361ad119496ff9205dafe4ab72d4394f2 MANIFEST SHA1 57082e147b77092b33b57411451a6b9030823f95 MANIFEST.SKIP -SHA1 cb34444c63493fcc305792e2f4ce11aac8226c8c META.yml +SHA1 4a3a60741e4eb7b2025bec45b07a05521db464d3 META.yml SHA1 eceaf9c21ce600ed653d0b5bdc0cbbadde16c7b9 Makefile.PL SHA1 bcdbe850216b8d70c2d9c7b32550860572196a82 MethodMaker.xs SHA1 a79be83e67bf815b27b226ad1f2403a7d2390e0c README ==> MISMATCHED content between SIGNATURE and distribution files! <==

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

Fix the problematic entry.

Error: ^* matches null string many times in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?:^(.*/)?CVS/.*)|(?:^(.*/)?.svn/.*)|(?:^Makefile(.old)?$)|(?:^Build$)|(?:^Clean$)|(?:^RollingBuild$)|(?:^blib/.*)|(?:^pm_to_blib$)|(?:^.cvsignore$)|(?:^MANIFEST.bak$)|(?:^testcheck$)|(?:^.*/\.cvsignore$)|(?:^lib/Class/MethodMaker/(?:array|hash|scalar)\.pm$)|(?:^lib/Class/MethodMaker/\.\#.*$)|(?:^lib/Class/MethodMaker\.(?:bs|o|c)$)|(?:^html(?:/.*)?$)|(?:^(.*/)?.cvsignore$)|(?:^(.*/)?.svnignore$)|(?:^INFO.yaml$)|(?:^_build/)|(?:^misc/)|(?:^* <-- HERE ~$)|(?:^make-dist$)|(?:^MethodMaker\.(?:bs|o|c)$)|(?:^lib/Class/MethodMaker.xs$)|(?:.git)|(?:.gitignore)|(?:^Class-MethodMaker-.*\..*$)/ at lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm line 440.

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: Class::MethodMaker, CommonMethods, Generate

Add all modules contained in this distribution to the META.yml field 'provides'. Module::Build or Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides do this automatically for you.

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