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. -- Matt Zagrabelny - mzagrabe@d.umn.edu - (218) 726 8844 University of Minnesota Duluth Information Technology Systems & Services PGP key 4096R/42A00942 2009-12-16 Fingerprint: 5814 2CCE 2383 2991 83FF C899 07E2 BFA8 42A0 0942 He is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot
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