On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:39:36PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:21:01AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > I think it's high time we dropped the EU:MM changes that still allow > > make install PREFIX=something > > to work with Makefile.PL based packages. Upstream has recommended DESTDIR > > instead since 2002, see #568748 and #545904. > > > > There's been a somewhat heuristic lintian check for five years visible at > > > > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated.html > > and it's currently down to 55 packages. The logic in the check is basically > > tag if ($uses_makefile_pl && /install.*PREFIX/ && !/DESTDIR/) > > Wow, I was completely unaware of this :)
Heh :) > Well, I should be covering all of the potentially affected packages > with my Depends: perl rebuild test which I'm running at the moment[1] > with perl 5.22. So I'd say add the patch to the next upload of perl > 5.22 to experimental and then we can get the test coverage we need > the next time I do a full rebuild as part of the perl 5.22 QA work. Ack, sounds good. Not sure how soon I can get that done though. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
