--- /dev/null
+#!perl -w
+use strict;
+use ExtUtils::Manifest qw(maniread);
+use Test::More;
+
+my $manifest = maniread();
+my @pm = sort grep /\.pm$/ && !m(Devel/CheckLib.pm$), keys %$manifest;
+
+for my $file (@pm) {
+ open my $pm, "<", $file
+ or die "Cannot open $file; $!";
+ my $lines = join "", <$pm>;
+ ok($lines =~ /^ *our \$VERSION/m, "$file: has a \$VERSION");
+ ok($lines =~ /^use 5\.006;$/m, "$file: has use 5.006");
+ ok($lines !~ /use vars/, "$file: hasn't any use vars");
+}
+done_testing();