Bug#579457: debian-policy: finer granularity for perlapi-*

2010-04-27 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-p...@lists.debian.org The Perl policy currently mandates that the perl-base package provides perlapi- for every upstream version it is binary compatible with. XS modules are required to depend on this so that there's a

Bug#579461: debian-policy: perl: ExtUtils::MakeMaker and PREFIX

2010-04-27 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist The Perl policy currently recommends that packaged modules should use $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian//usr to install the files into a temporary tree. However, as seen in #545904, overriding PREFIX is only working because of