(The following is based on the information in the Contents-i386 file
on ftp-master.)
I just filed bugs on about 5 packages which install Perl modules into
/usr/share/perl/5.6.0 against the perl policy. But then I checked to
see if there are any packages installing into /usr/lib/perl/5.6.0, and
I discovered that there are 16 which shouldn't, and I'm a little more
loathe to file 16 identical bug reports.
The next thing I checked was for dependencies. These are somewhat
important due to the @INC restructuring. There are 212 packages which
have files in /usr/lib/perl5. Their perl dependencies look like this:
Perl dependency number of packages
--------------- ------------------
Probably correct packages:
perl (>= 5.6.0-x), perlapi-5.6.0 58 (where x>=16)
perl-base (>= 5.6.0-x), perlapi-5.6.0 1
Almost certainly incorrect packages:
<none> 8
perl 23
perl (>= 5.006), perlapi-5.6.0 1
perl (>= 5.6.0-16) 3
perl | perl5 2
perl, perl-5.005 | perl-5.6 1
perl-5.005 7
perl-5.005 | perl-5.6, perl5 1
perl-5.6 12
perl-modules (>= 5.6.0), perl 1
perl5 84
perl5 | perl 3
perl5 | perl (>= 5.002) 2
perl5 | perl (>=5.004) 1
perl5|perl 1
perl5|perl5-base 1
Total incorrect: 153
And now for those using /usr/share/perl5, of which there are 94
packages:
Perl dependency number of packages
--------------- ------------------
Probably correct packages:
perl (>= 5.6.0-16) 1
Almost certainly incorrect packages:
<none> 2
perl 85
perl (>= 5.6.0) 1
perl, perl (>= 5.6.0) 1
perl, perl5 1
perl-base (>= 5.6.0-4) 1
perl5 2
So only one of them has it right.
The current debhelper (>=3.0.18, in particular dh_perl), if it's used,
gets it right. I haven't even bothered to try checking that the
Build-Depends(-Indep) on debhelper is versioned (>= 3.0.18), but it
needs to be.
Any suggestions where to go from here? A post on -devel-announce,
perhaps?
Julian
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