Re: Bug#587991: perl-policy: /etc/perl missing from Module Path
- To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>, 587991@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#587991: perl-policy: /etc/perl missing from Module Path
- From: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 13:06:47 +0100
- Message-id: <20110305120647.GB17663@yellowpig>
- In-reply-to: <20110305021528.GA22659@elie>
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:15:28PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ansgar Burchardt noticed:
>
> > perl/5.8.0-7 added /etc/perl to @INC:
> >
> > * Prepend /etc/perl to @INC to provide a standard location for
> > configuration modules:
> >
> > But this addition has never been documented in the Debian Perl Policy.
>
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> > Good point. Here's updated proposed wording.
>
> I see this has been seconded by
>
> Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> (message #25)
>
> and I imagine that Russ might be willing to second this, but that
> still leaves us one DD short[1]. Seconds? Objections?
> Clarifications?
A clarification would be welcome:
The only conffile in /etc/perl is /etc/perl/Net/libnet.cfg from perl-modules.
However this file does not look like a perl module.
Now I realize that the proposed policy does not mandate all file in /etc/perl/
to be perl module.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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