Package: perl
Version: 5.10.0-3
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Given the recent announcement of the Lenny release schedule [1] with a
"very soft freeze" in a few weeks from now, I propose that the infamous
"installs an empty /usr/{share,lib}/perl5 directory" bug is reintroduced
until Lenny is released.
For the sake of completeness, the story is that a bug in Extutils::Install
used to create empty /usr/lib/perl5 or /usr/share/perl5 directories,
and dh-make-perl templates included for a long time a debian/rules line
that unconditionally rmdir'd it.
This bug was fixed upstream in ExtUtils::Install 1.41_04, and the fix
is included in Perl 5.10.0. As a result, hundreds of Debian packages
fail to build with perl 5.10.0-3 from experimental because they try to
remove a non-existent directory.
I run a few greps on debian/rules of the source packages of all the
binary packages matching '-perl' in unstable. Results: at least 398
arch:all and 38 arch:any packages apparently do an unconditional rmdir
for the empty directory.
I have tried my best to avoid false positives, but I'd be delighted if
there's a mistake here.
The arch:any packages are particularly important because they will
be uninstallable when perl 5.10 hits unstable and must be rebuilt
first. Most of the bugs for the 38 packages have already been filed,
using the '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' / 'perl-5.10-transition' usertag
[2]. The arch:all packages will "only" start to FTBFS, creating 400 new
RC bugs in one go.
Out of the 436 packages I found, 196 are maintained by the pkg-perl group.
These are already listed on the pkg-perl website [3]. I'm attaching the
dd-list output for the remaining 240 packages.
Given these depressing numbers, I think we should postpone breaking
these packages until after Lenny. The attached patch reverts this
particular change in Extutils::Install; I have only done some cursory
testing but it seems to do the right thing.
This doesn't mean that the packages are OK, of course. Maybe a lintian
check for the buggy rmdir invocations would be a good start at fixing
them...
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/02/msg00002.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[3] http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/perl5.10-FTBFS.txt
Cheers,
--
Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git a/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm b/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
index 1782d34..f0edb30 100644
--- a/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+++ b/lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
@@ -563,6 +563,19 @@ sub install { #XXX OS-SPECIFIC
$pack{$_}=$from_to{$_};
delete $from_to{$_};
}
+ my($source_dir_or_file);
+ my (%fs_type);
+ foreach $source_dir_or_file (sort keys %from_to) {
+ #Check if there are files, and if yes, look if the corresponding
+ #target directory is writable for us
+ opendir DIR, $source_dir_or_file or next;
+ for (readdir DIR) {
+ next if $_ eq $Curdir || $_ eq $Updir || $_ eq ".exists";
+ my $targetdir = install_rooted_dir($from_to{$source_dir_or_file});
+ _mkpath( $targetdir, 0, 0755, $verbose, $nonono );
+ }
+ closedir DIR;
+ }
my $tmpfile = install_rooted_file($pack{"read"});
$packlist->read($tmpfile) if (-f $tmpfile);
my $cwd = cwd();
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