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Summary: around 400 *-perl packages have a debian/rules bug that
makes them FTBFS with perl 5.10, currently in experimental.
Until recently, the most common build system in Perl CPAN modules,
ExtUtils::MakeMaker, had a long-standing bug that created an empty
/usr/lib/perl5 or /usr/share/perl5 directory when 'make install' was
run.
As shipping empty directories in Debian packages is considered untidy,
dh-make-perl debian/rules templates have included the following line
since at least 2004:
rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty --parents $(TMP)/usr/lib/perl5
This is fine as long as the directory exists. However, it makes
the whole build fail when the directory doesn't exist, ie. when the
ExtUtils::MakeMaker (or ExtUtils::Install, to be precise) bug is fixed.
This is now the case with Perl 5.10.0, currently in experimental. The
error has crept in hundreds of packages, and they are all going to start
to FTBFS when 5.10 enters unstable.
The suggested fix is simple: use a conditional like
[ ! -d $(TMP)/usr/lib/perl5 ] || rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty --parents --verbose $(TMP)/usr/lib/perl5
which is what the current dh-make-perl templates recommend.
Bug #465783 discusses whether the ExtUtils::Install behaviour should be
reverted for Lenny or not, but these are definitely bugs in any case.
I ran a few greps on debian/rules of the source packages of all the
binary packages matching '-perl' in unstable as of Feb 14th. Results: 398
arch:all and 38 arch:any packages apparently do an unconditional rmdir
for the empty directory. I have tried my best to avoid false positives,
but I'd be delighted if there's a mistake here.
It would be nice to verify these results with a real mass rebuild with
Perl 5.10 from experimental. I'll work on that, but there are going to
be a few bootstrapping problems, so I'm attaching the dd-list now based
on the grep results.
Out of the 436 packages I found, 196 are maintained by the pkg-perl group.
These are already listed on the pkg-perl website [1]. I'm attaching the
dd-list output for the remaining 240 packages. Note that the bugs for the
(relatively few) arch:any packages are filed already, because those are
somewhat of a special case (they will be uninstallable without a rebuild
due to their perlapi-5.8.x dependencies).
I propose a mass bug filing at severity:important and an appropriate
usertag (user:debian-perl@lists.debian.org) when the bugs have been
verified with a real rebuild. Depending on the outcome of #465783, these
may become 'serious' when Perl 5.10 enters unstable, but it's possible
that there will be an NMU campaign even before that.
A lintian check would probably be handy too, I'll see if I can come up
with a patch.
[1] http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/perl5.10-FTBFS.txt
Cheers,
--
Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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