Re: perlapi-5.8* and the perl 5.10 transition

[Krzysztof Krzyz.aniak <eloy@kofeina.net>]

Niko Tyni wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 10:30:15PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:45:32 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
>>> Would it make sense to split the 5.10 transition into two by reverting the
>>> fix for the 'empty directory bug' in Extutils::MakeMaker temporarily? This
>>> way the binNMUs for the perlapi-5.8 problem could be done first without
>>> having to worry about the 'rmdir bug', and enabling the fix again
>>> afterwards would only lead to build failures, not uninstallable packages.
>> I'm not sure it's worth the hassle -- if I'm not counting wrong there
>> are only around 20 arch:any packages left that FTBFS at the moment,
>> and most just need an upload.
> 
> That's just the pkg-perl packages. Some quick greps show at least
> 39 other arch:any packages with an unconditional rmdir for the empty
> directory. False negatives are more possible than false positives here.
> 
> Here's the dd-list output:
> 
> Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) <eloy@debian.org>
>    libcache-fastmmap-perl (U)
>    libsub-name-perl (U)

Uploaded updated versions.

  eloy
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