Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch
> > could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn
> > about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and 
> >   
> > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated.html
> 
> [...]
> 
> > --- a/perl-policy.sgml
> > +++ b/perl-policy.sgml
> > @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ $(MAKE) OPTIMIZE="-O2 -g -Wall"
> >       </example>
> >       and this one to install the results into the temporary tree:
> >       <example>
> > -$(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
> > +$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;
> >       </example><footnote>
> >         <p>Replace &lt;tmp&gt; with the appropriate directory
> >         (nominally just tmp)</p>
> 
> Seconded, belatedly.

Seconded.

But do we really need seconds for sub-policies? In the absence of
opposition, I tend to think that you should be able to merge changes
from the perl maintainers concerning the perl policy without
any formal seconds.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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