On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/usr > > +$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp> > > </example><footnote> > > <p>Replace <tmp> with the appropriate directory > > (nominally just tmp)</p> > > Seconded, belatedly. Seconded. But do we really need seconds for sub-policies? In the absence of opposition, I tend to think that you should be able to merge changes from the perl maintainers concerning the perl policy without any formal seconds. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/
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