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Re: Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental



On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:03:10 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > This is unnecessary duplication, error-prone[0] and makes things harder
> > if we ever choose to change the directory layout[1].
> Yeah, that's a valid point.

Agreed.
 
> > If the problem is a backward-compatible way of handling the removal of
> > these empty dirs, maybe something like this?
> >
> >   find $(TMP) -depth -type d -empty -print0 | \
> >   	xargs -0r rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> That would work.

Agreed.

/me sighs gently because he has changed some of these lines to
explicit rmdir's in the past ...
 
> What does the rest of the group think?  We should update dh-make-perl to
> do whatever is the best solution here 

Right. But that's the easy part.

> and should probably decide before we
> start changing more packages than we have already.

Ack, we should find a solution (that works both for perl 5.8 and
5.10) and then implement it for all packages ...

BTW: Is there a timetable for the introduction of perl 5.10 in
unstable?

Cheers,
gregor
 
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