Bug#798309: perl: multi-arch packages don't comply with perl policy

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Control: block -1 by 796345

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 02:05:14PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:24:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Source: perl
> > Severity: normal
> > Version: 5.22.0-3
> > 
> > The perl policy should be updated to reflect the new implementation
> > details of paths. The patch I sent in May is, IIRC, out of date now;
> > Niko, would you be able to review/update this?
> > 
> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2015-May/004889.html
> > 
> > This bug could then perhaps be reassigned to policy once a new patch
> > is available.
> 
> I think the only outdated part was archlib+privlib, which ended up
> with shortversion after all (see #787158).
> 
> Updated patch attached. I've also amended the patch description
> to explain the reasoning behind versioned directories. Eyeballs
> welcome.

Thanks, this looks good. I guess we will move this to debian-policy
once perl 5.22 has migrated to unstable, so setting blocks appropriately.

Cheers,
Dominic.