On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 16:49:12 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > > TTBOMK, that's considered "best practice" in the CPAN universe, in > > order to let the process continue (where "process"is installing > > multiple distributions or especially CPAN smoke testers).
> That was an "interesting" practice. I cannot say I am happy with it, Right, from a packaging point of view it's not helpful. > but if it is "best practise" then I am willing to reconsider the > "wontfix" if you (as in: "anyone") can provide a reliable method for > detecting this "false success" that is specific to Makefile.PL (or the > perl related build systems). I don't have any idea how to do this. Maybe (and that might be what you hinted at in the earlier mail) debhelper could detect later that the package is basically empty and bail out there. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Peter Ratzenbeck: An schönen Traum
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