Damyan Ivanov: > Can debhelper prefer Build.PL over Makefile.PL? I vagueely remember > discussing thes before, but can't recall what was the outcome (and > can't find a bugreport about it). > > In the mean time, I'll pass --buildsystem=perl_build in dbi-sweet's > rules as a workaround.
Reordering debhelper buildsystems is Hard, because it has the potential
to make arbitrary packages FTBFS.
# Historical order must be kept for backwards compatibility. New
# build systems MUST be added to the END of the list.
our @BUILDSYSTEMS = (
"autoconf",
"perl_makemaker",
"makefile",
"python_distutils",
"perl_build",
"cmake",
"ant",
"qmake",
);
Now, perl_makemaker *must* come before makefile, so perl_build would
need to be moved to come before perl_makemaker. The risk then is that a
package with a Build file, that would have been built using makefile or
python_distutils before, will change to being built using perl_build.
Plus the obvious risk, that some perl packages might build differently
if perl_build is used vs perl_makemaker.
I don't feel comfortable doing it without running a full archive-wide
rebuild test. If someone wants to make it happen, and can arrange for
such a test on eg, the Grid 500, that'd be great.
--
see shy jo
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