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Bug#587991: perl-policy: /etc/perl missing from Module Path



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>

Imagine a large red swirl here. 



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