Package: lintian Version: 2.5.114 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@packages.debian.org
The debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated check has served its purpose and is not useful anymore. It was added in 2010 (with #568748) to ease removing Debian-specific support for 'make install PREFIX=something' in Makefile.PL based Perl projects, and helped to get the number of affected packages down from 250 to 50 in five years. The transition was completed in 2015 (see #788883), and any packages relying on the functionality that this check is looking for will nowadays fail to build. The only package triggering the tag currently is libmail-sender-perl, which is non-free, RC-buggy and not in stable. The check can therefore be removed. Thanks for helping with this transition :) -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
