Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:56:37 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > rmdir: failed to remove 
> > `/libpod-simple-perl-3.05/debian/libpod-simple-perl/usr/lib/perl5': No 
> > such file or directory
> Ah, it looks like the new version of Perl finally fixes the long-standing
> bug that causes these empty directories to be created.

Which is good but ...
 
> The best fix is probably to switch to the new way of invoking Makefile.PL
> so that the directory isn't created in the first place with the current
> version of Perl.  I bet a ton of our packages have this problem.

... as you said this affects a few hundred [0] of our packages. 

Uh.

(How does Makefile.PL have to be invoked differently?)

Cheers,
gregor

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334 according to a quick grep in trunk
 
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