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Re: package-installs-packlist



On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 00:48 +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote:
> On 17:27 Fri 28 May     , Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> > Greetings,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I have just packaged up Text::Trim (not exciting, I know) and am running
> > into a lintian error:
> > 
> > E: libtext-trim-perl: package-installs-packlist
> > usr/lib/perl5/auto/Text/Trim/.packlist
> > 
> > Googling didn't yeild but an old (~2007) thread on mentors.
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this problem before? Should I go digging in the
> > Makefile.PL or someplace else?
> 
> I did never get this lintian message but AFAICS, this file can be suppressed
> since it is generated when using MakeMaker and this file is useless.
> 
> Or you should be able to tell MakeMaker to use vendor install dirs.
> 
> A simple trick could be to delete it in a debian/rules rule. But I don't know if
> it's the nicer way...
> 
> Is this module old ?

Looks like there have been three releases:

2006
2006
2010


>  I seems that some modules from 2006 and 2007 had this issue
> and this were solved by patching the module (I have parsed some diffs and old
> perl modules upload)

I've added:

create_packlist => 0,

to the Build.PL

That took care of the lintian error.

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