Executive summary of heuristic: if the package uses Module::Builder (for example, CompileScript invoking Build.PL) rather than MakeMaker (the default script for type:perl, invoking Makefile.PL).
Thanks to recent buildworlding, we've found a user-visible packaging problem: if a perlmodule package is the first of its perl variant (any certain XXX of pmXXX, or agnostic/nonvarianted pm) asserted UpdatePOD:true in its .info but does not have a perllocal.pod fragment, PostInst crashes. The UpdatePOD tag is specifically to handle the perllocal.pod fragments with lots of internal (but apparently fragile) magic, so the solution is just to avoid using that tag if there is no such fragment. The validator in fink HEAD has been updated to catch this situation. Building a package with -m (maintainer mode...maintainers always try this before committing, right?) or 'fink validate' on a .deb says: Validating .deb dir /sw/build.build/root-datetime-format-mail-pm588-0.3001-1... Error: /sw/share/podfiles/5.8.8/ is empty. If a perl package does not install any podfiles, set UpdatePOD:false (or do not define it) in the .info file. I will be updating anyone's packages I find that have this as I find them (unless the maintainers find them first obviously:). Requires a rev-up because it changes the .deb. The perllocal.pod is a standard that has long existed, but apparently Module::Build decided to be different. http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=14316 Not sure why that's only "Wishlist", but anyway, that means one pattern to these newly flagged packaging mistakes is when they use Module::Build. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
