Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Unfortunately, it'e exactly this that doesn't work, because that >> command fails if the directory named doesn't exist. With Perl 5.8's >> MakeMaker, it's created. With Perl 5.10's, it isn't, which causes any >

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> What does the rest of the group think? We should update dh-make-perl to > >> do whatever is the best solution here and should probably decide before > >> we star

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> What does the rest of the group think? We should update dh-make-perl to >> do whatever is the best solution here and should probably decide before >> we start changing more packages than we have already. > dh-

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > What does the rest of the group think? We should update dh-make-perl > to do whatever is the best solution here and should probably decide > before we start changing more packages than we have already. dh-make-perl already uses rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-n

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:50:14PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >Even if we decide to reintroduce this bug into Perl 5.10 to keep existing >Debian build scripts working, we should still fix the Makefile.PL >invocations in all of our packages so that the directory isn't created >with either 5.8 or 5.1

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hrm. > > What I'm specifically objecting to is the explicit passing of directory > args to Makefile.PL like INSTALLVENDORARCH etc. > > This is unnecessary duplication, error-prone[0] and makes things harder > if we ever choose to change the directory lay

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:21:49PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ... as you said this affects a few hundred [0] of our packages. >> >> Uh. >> >> (How does Makefile.PL have to be invoked differently?) > >$(PERL) Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor \

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Brendan O'Dea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please DON'T do this. If there is a problem building with 5.10.0, then > it should be fixed in perl/MakeMaker... I will take a look now. The problem is that Perl 5.8 and earlier created stray /usr/lib/perl5 directories for arch-independent packages a

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... as you said this affects a few hundred [0] of our packages. > > Uh. > > (How does Makefile.PL have to be invoked differently?) $(PERL) Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor \ INSTALLVENDORARCH=/usr/lib/perl5/ \ VE

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:56:37 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > rmdir: failed to remove > > `/libpod-simple-perl-3.05/debian/libpod-simple-perl/usr/lib/perl5': No > > such file or directory > Ah, it looks like the new version of Perl finally fixes the long-standing > bug that causes these empty dire

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
peter green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > package: libpod-simple-perl > severity: important > > While trying to rebuild your package against the version of perl and > associated packages from experimental I got the following error: > > rmdir: failed to remove > `/libpod-simple-perl-3.05/debian/l

Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

2007-12-28 Thread peter green
package: libpod-simple-perl severity: important While trying to rebuild your package against the version of perl and associated packages from experimental I got the following error: rmdir: failed to remove `/libpod-simple-perl-3.05/debian/libpod-simple-perl/usr/lib/perl5': No such file or di