Package: perl Version: 5.22.0-1 Severity: wishlist 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 ($uses_makefile_pl && /install.*PREFIX/ && !/DESTDIR/) It looks like debian/prefix_changes.diff contains some unrelated changes, at least - \$(NOECHO) \$(POD2MAN) --section=$section --perm_rw=\$(PERM_RW) + \$(NOECHO) \$(POD2MAN) --section=\$(MAN${section}EXT) --perm_rw=\$(PERM_RW) that should be broken out in any case. I expect affected packages will start to FTBFS, as seen in #545904, so a full check would be "just" a simple matter of building the archive with and without the patch, comparing the results and filing bugs :) This could just as well be tested with the 5.20 packages in sid. Alternatively, if a full check seems overkill, we could just check the 55 packages noticed by lintian and let the rest be fixed in their own time when they start to fail. Thoughts? -- 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
