Makefile.PL                     | 2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/SolverGit.pm    | 2 +-
 lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm | 2 +-
 script/public-inbox-edit        | 2 +-

diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 1c70c6f3bb133412825c521d73efa7d61047fbc6..f650fdeaea143ee491801af95d02e9420a3dabf0 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 		# All Perl installs I know about have these, but RH-based
 		# distros make them separate even though 'perl' pulls them in
 		'File::Path' => 0,
-		'File::Temp' => 0,
+		'File::Temp' => '0.19',
 		'Getopt::Long' => 0,
 		'Exporter' => 0,
 		# ExtUtils::MakeMaker # this file won't run w/o it...
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/SolverGit.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/SolverGit.pm
index 95334d7a8eeb4364738c4482ed457ec0dc27461d..eea59b6ddbda047496fe4917517fe4b3c6c53bdb 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/SolverGit.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/SolverGit.pm
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ # local filesystem layouts in the process.
 package PublicInbox::SolverGit;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use File::Temp qw();
+use File::Temp 0.19 ();
 use Fcntl qw(SEEK_SET);
 use PublicInbox::Git qw(git_unquote git_quote);
 use PublicInbox::MsgIter qw(msg_iter msg_part_text);
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm
index e923178066fcac20f7e4e5a6c331354ee7d5a7da..003baec90f3d14905a09d210744fdaedd60468c2 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ use warnings;
 use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(spawn);
 use PublicInbox::InboxWritable;
-use File::Temp qw//;
+use File::Temp 0.19 ();
 use PublicInbox::Filter::Base;
 use PublicInbox::Spamcheck;
 *REJECT = *PublicInbox::Filter::Base::REJECT;
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-edit b/script/public-inbox-edit
index 1900b267fbaed598867dfd66917bad778a0c207f..2a9f0531f7377dfc4f2c02a995c7133eeb579fdd 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-edit
+++ b/script/public-inbox-edit
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Getopt::Long qw(:config gnu_getopt no_ignore_case auto_abbrev);
 use PublicInbox::AdminEdit;
-use File::Temp ();
+use File::Temp 0.19 ();
 use PublicInbox::ContentId qw(content_id);
 use PublicInbox::MID qw(mid_clean mids);
 PublicInbox::Admin::check_require('-index');