Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

2010-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Niko Tyni writes: >>> I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch >>> could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn >>> about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and >>> >>> http

Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

2010-06-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > Niko Tyni writes: > > > I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch > > could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn > > about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and > > > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags

Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni writes: > I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch > could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn > about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated.html [...

Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

2010-04-27 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist The Perl policy currently recommends that packaged modules should use $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian//usr to install the files into a temporary tree. However, as seen in #545904, overriding PREFIX is only working because of