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

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:29:24 -0300, David Bremner wrote:

> >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"?  

Good question, but in general I agree with the bug reporter that
there's not much sense in first running all the extract_* procedures
and then 'die' anyway.

Cheers,
gregor
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