note emazep I had the same problem and I've solved it this way: <code> ## no critic package My::Package; ## use critic use strict; use warnings; </code> so that [mod://Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PkgVersion] will expand it to: <code> ## no critic package My::Package; BEGIN { $My::Package::VERSION = '1.23'; } ## use critic use strict; use warnings; </code> and everyone is happy :-) 845839 845839