Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> 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
>> Seconded, belatedly.
> Seconded.
Thanks, merged.
> 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.
My understanding is that the point of including sub-policies into
debian-policy is, in part, for them to follow the same consensus process
as other Policy modifications.
Also, so far we've not had any real difficulty getting seconds for
sub-policy modifications (well, when one of the Policy maintainers is
pushing a little; SETTITLE has sat for quite some time and could use
seconds), so right now at least I'm not sure we have a problem that needs
to be solved.
In general, my hope would be that if a sub-policy for a particular area is
managed as part of Policy, those who are interested in that area would
monitor the debian-policy mailing list and discuss and second changes in
that area.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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