I ran debuilder with lintian and received this output (amongst other
messages)
E: libhtml-treebuilder-xpath-perl: package-installs-packlist usr/lib/
perl5/auto/HTML/TreeBuilder/XPath/.packlist
N:
N: Packages built using the perl MakeMaker package will have a file
named
N: .packlist in them. Those files are useless, and (in some cases)
have
N: the additional problem of creating an architecture-specific
directory
N: name in an architecture-independent package.
N:
N: They can be suppressed by adding the following to debian/rules:
N:
N: find debian/tmp -type f -name .packlist | xargs rm -f
N:
N: -find debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl5 -type d -empty | xargs rmdir -p
N:
N: Or by telling MakeMaker to use vendor install dirs; consult a
recent
N: version of perl policy. Perl 5.6.0-12 or higher supports this.
Google had remarkably little information on this lintian error. But
fortunately I had other rules files on my system that had
the above command(s) in their rules file so I copied them as much as
I could. I placed the previously mentioned find commands under
various places in the rules file to no effect (the lintian error kept
appearing.)
Below is an example of the output I would receive:
<snip>
find debian/tmp -type f -name .packlist | xargs -r rm -f
find: debian/tmp: No such file or directory
find debian/tmp -type d -empty | xargs -r rmdir -p
find: debian/tmp: No such file or directory
<snip>
What I did to finally get rid of this error was to change the command
to this:
# remove .packlist files inserted by MakeMaker
find . -type f -name .packlist | xargs -r rm -f
I changed the directories find looks in because of the error message
from find saying: "No such file or directory" even though
the .packlist file existed. (I think that the directory debian/tmp
was not being created.)
I then placed the changed code (the line above with my comment) in
the install section of the debian/rules file and the lintian error
went away! I hope this helps some one else.
If you think I was wrong to do it this way please inform me of the
proper way to do it or any changes I should make.
Thanks,
Jeremiah Foster
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