Bug#500685: dh-make-perl: Checks ./debian too late in the process

[David Bremner]

Mark Lawrence wrote:

>Package: dh-make-perl
>Version: 0.47
>Severity: normal


>After a long search using apt-file dh-make-perl stops due to the
>existence of ./debian. This check for an existing debian directory
>should happen earlier to avoid a long wait for nothing.

Can you explain the use case a bit better?  Why are you running
dh-make-perl in an already debianized directory? Are you using
"--refresh"?  

David