Package: net-snmp
Version: 5.7.2.1~dfsg-6
Severity: important
Tags: patch
User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.20-transition
Starting with version 5.20.0 (currently in experimental), the Debian
perl package is changing the "vendorarch" library paths (currently
/usr/lib/perl5) to include the multiarch triplet and the perl version. See
#748380 for details.
For this to work, packages containing binary perl modules need to migrate
from using the hardcoded /usr/lib/perl5 directory to the value of the
$Config{vendorarch} variable, as defined in the 'Config' module.
The attached patch implements this for net-snmp by making
debian/libsnmp-perl.install into an executable perl script. (YMMV; there
are certainly other ways to do it.) I've tested that this produces no
debdiff visible changes on current sid while fixing a build failure at
the 'install' stage with perl_5.20.0-1.
Please consider including something like this sooner rather than later;
net-snmp is a build dependency for other packages that need to be rebuilt
for the Perl 5.20 transition, and this issue is currently hindering our
rebuild tests.
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Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
>From a91d2697204fa08627b8ae7bc26610d318d6aee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 21:20:08 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Don't hardcode /usr/lib/perl5 in debian/libsnmp-perl.install
Starting with version 5.20.0, the Debian perl package is changing
the "vendorarch" library paths (currently /usr/lib/perl5) to include
the multiarch triplet and the perl version. See #748380 for details.
For this to work, packages containing binary perl modules need to migrate
from using the hardcoded /usr/lib/perl5 directory to the value of the
$Config{vendorarch} variable, as defined in the 'Config' module.
---
debian/libsnmp-perl.install | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
mode change 100644 => 100755 debian/libsnmp-perl.install
diff --git a/debian/libsnmp-perl.install b/debian/libsnmp-perl.install
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 36e0356..23df4ff
--- a/debian/libsnmp-perl.install
+++ b/debian/libsnmp-perl.install
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
-usr/lib/perl*
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+use Config;
+# expand the perl binary module directory at build time
+print substr($Config{vendorarch}, 1) . "\n";
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