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

2010-06-04 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes: I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and

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

2010-06-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 03 Jun 2010, Russ Allbery wrote: Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes: I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn about overriding PREFIX. See

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

2010-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes: I would like to see all the packages use DESTDIR so that the patch could be removed. As a first step, lintian was recently changed to warn about overriding PREFIX. See #568748 and

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/tmp/usr to install the files into a temporary tree. However, as seen in #545904, overriding PREFIX is only working