Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> writes:

> I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch
> could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn
> about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and 
>   http://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated.html

[...]

> --- a/perl-policy.sgml
> +++ b/perl-policy.sgml
> @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ $(MAKE) OPTIMIZE="-O2 -g -Wall"
>  	  </example>
>  	  and this one to install the results into the temporary tree:
>  	  <example>
> -$(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
> +$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;
>  	  </example><footnote>
>  	    <p>Replace &lt;tmp&gt; with the appropriate directory
>  	    (nominally just tmp)</p>

Seconded, belatedly.

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