On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:40:28PM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > I ran debuilder with lintian and received this output (amongst other > messages) > > E: libhtml-treebuilder-xpath-perl: package-installs-packlist > usr/lib/perl5/auto/HTML/TreeBuilder/XPath/.packlist > N: > N: Packages built using the perl MakeMaker package will have a file named > N: .packlist in them. Those files are useless, and (in some cases) have > N: the additional problem of creating an architecture-specific directory > N: name in an architecture-independent package. > N: > N: They can be suppressed by adding the following to debian/rules: > N: > N: find debian/tmp -type f -name .packlist | xargs rm -f > N: > N: -find debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl5 -type d -empty | xargs rmdir -p > N: > N: Or by telling MakeMaker to use vendor install dirs; consult a recent > N: version of perl policy. Perl 5.6.0-12 or higher supports this.
> Below is an example of the output I would receive: > > <snip> > > find debian/tmp -type f -name .packlist | xargs -r rm -f > find: debian/tmp: No such file or directory > find debian/tmp -type d -empty | xargs -r rmdir -p > find: debian/tmp: No such file or directory > > <snip> > > What I did to finally get rid of this error was to change the command to > this: > > # remove .packlist files inserted by MakeMaker > find . -type f -name .packlist | xargs -r rm -f > I changed the directories find looks in because of the error message from > find saying: "No such file or directory" even though the .packlist file > existed. (I think that the directory debian/tmp was not being created.) Hi, The debhelper tools (dh_install) used to use debian/tmp but now (depending on DH_COMPAT) use debian/$package. So this is a small-ish lintian bug. You should probably do find ./debian/ instead of find . to avoid removing files from ./ except from ./debian/.. since a strict reading of policy requires that after the "clean" rule is run you have to end up in the same state as immediately after dpkg -x $dsc. Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
