On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:54 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:

> > I'm not sure if and what debhelper can do about it; one option might
> > be to prefer Build(.PL) over Makefile(.PL) for 
> > dh_auto_{configure,build,install}
> > (or at least _install); in general I prefer MakeMaker over
> > Module::Build magic, but in this case it would solve the problem.
> Changing it to prefer Build.PL is dangerous, because:

[..]

Good points.

> Instead I think dh_auto_install should get an improved check for whether
> a Makefile was generated by MakeMaker, and only do the prefix hack if
> that is clearly the case.

Sounds like a good idea to me, thanks.

Cheers,
gregor 
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