Bug#798309: perl: multi-arch packages don't comply with perl policy

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 05:46:50PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 02:05:14PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:24:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

>>>> The perl policy should be updated to reflect the new implementation
>>>> details of paths. The patch I sent in May is, IIRC, out of date now;
>>>> Niko, would you be able to review/update this?

>>> I think the only outdated part was archlib+privlib, which ended up
>>> with shortversion after all (see #787158).

>>> Updated patch attached. I've also amended the patch description
>>> to explain the reasoning behind versioned directories. Eyeballs
>>> welcome.

>> Thanks, this looks good. I guess we will move this to debian-policy
>> once perl 5.22 has migrated to unstable, so setting blocks
>> appropriately.

> This has now happened, so reassigning accordingly.

Thanks, seconded and applied for the next release.

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