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Re: Bug#748380: perl-policy: @INC changes for multiarch



Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> writes:

> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.9.5.0
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-perl@lists.debian.org

> As discussed in the thread at
>  https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2014/05/msg00035.html

> we would like to change the perl search path (@INC) to include the
> multiarch triplet, to pave way for future Multi-Arch:same perl module
> packages. We're still discussing whether to try to do this for the
> upcoming Perl 5.20 or postpone it after jessie, but at the moment I think
> it's clear that policy shouldn't recommend hardcoding /usr/lib/perl5 in
> Debian packaging anymore.

> I'm attaching a patch set for this. The first two changes are minor
> cleanups that I discovered while drafting this. At least the first
> is clearly just an editorial change and shouldn't need seconds.
> I'm not quite sure about the process with second one. Apologies
> if I should have filed separate bugs about those.

> The third one is the meat of this and changes the documented site,
> vendor, and core include paths to be dynamically resolved via the Config
> module. The vendor paths have the biggest effect on other packages:  the
> site directories in /usr/local are in the realm of the local
> administrator, and I can't think of anything outside the perl source
> package that should need to use the core path.

Looks good to me.  Seconded.

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


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