Bug#510895: perlivp fails

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:32:28AM -0800, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.10.0-15
> Severity: minor
 
> The `perlivp` program fails two of its tests.  One is due to the absence
> of '/usr/local/lib/site_perl' and the other appears to be an artifact of
> the build procedure having used a temporary directory as a prefix (e.g.
> "files missing from installation:
> /tmp/st-o67qmvRP/usr/local/lib/perl/...".)

I don't see the /tmp thing with the current version (-19), only these:

# Perl @INC directory `/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0' does not appear to exist.
# Perl @INC directory `/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0' does not appear to exist.

We could create the directories in a postinst script, but I'm not sure
I see the point. They will be created automatically when installing
CPAN modules.

I see 'perlivp -a' is also missing quite a few .ph files.

# Perl header `stdio.ph' does not appear to be properly installed.
# Perl header `arpa/inet.ph' does not appear to be properly installed.

(and lots of others)

Quoting Brendan O'Dea:

> I reduced the headers which were processed to the minimum I believed
> necessary (debian/headers) based on a grep of require lines in the
> Debian packages at the time, supplied patches to h2lp and did some
> post-processing (debian/fixheaders) to fix problems.

See #510984 for some plans for the .ph files.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org