Before I get a zillion bug reports about this... as a result of a lightly broken security fix, Debian stable ships with a slightly broken File::Path::rmtree() that cannot delete read-only directories. Ubuntu may also be effected. This causes an ExtUtils::Command test to fail.
ok 19 - change a dir to read-only Can't chdir to testdir (Permission denied) at blib/lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm line 108 not ok 20 - rm_rf can delete a read-only dir # Failed test 'rm_rf can delete a read-only dir' # in t/Command.t at line 178. http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22033 Since the test is correct and its a broken Perl and Debian has fixed this in testing and its not a critical feature, I don't intend to put any effort into working around it. I'm not sure I'd even accept a patch to work around it as I'd rather see a user fix their broken File::Path than paper over the problem. But I can be convinced otherwise.