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



Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> What does the rest of the group think? We should update dh-make-perl to
>> do whatever is the best solution here and should probably decide before
>> we start changing more packages than we have already.

> dh-make-perl already uses rmdir -p --ignore-fail-on-non-empty for these
> directories, actually. [And giving just a path to these directories
> would be better than getting rid of all empty directories, some of which
> may be purposefully empty.]

Unfortunately, it'e exactly this that doesn't work, because that command
fails if the directory named doesn't exist.  With Perl 5.8's MakeMaker,
it's created.  With Perl 5.10's, it isn't, which causes any package using
that command to FTBFS.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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