Hi, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Replace the perl/Makefile.PL and the fallback perl/Makefile used under > NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=NoThanks with a much simpler implementation heavily > inspired by how the i18n infrastructure's build process works[1]. Yay! This looks exciting. One quick comment: [...] > * We don't build the Git(3) Git::I18N(3) etc. man pages from the > embedded perldoc. I suspect nobody really cares, these are mostly > internal APIs, and if someone's developing against them they likely > know enough to issue a "perldoc" against the installed file to get > the same result. > > But this is a change in how Git is installed now on e.g. CentOS & > Debian which carry these manpages. They could be added (via > pod2man) if anyone really cares. > > I doubt they will. The reason these were built in the first place > was as a side-effect of how ExtUtils::MakeMaker works. Debian cares (see https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html for details). I'll try applying this patch and seeing what happens some time this week. Thanks, Jonathan
