Bug#664056: libxml-atom-microformats-perl: FTBFS: Test suite failures

Salvatore Bonaccorso carnil at debian.org
Fri Mar 16 20:19:47 UTC 2012


Hi

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 08:40:36PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> I might be wrong but I think the question of building twice boils
> down to the question: is the source tree the same as before after
> running the build and the clean? And this seems to be the case here.
> (Of course without a "clean" Makefile.PL is patched and Makefile is
> still there and is older than Makefile.PL and everything goes south.)

As just discussed on IRC, this should be correct. There is one
historical reference [1] to this, back, it was a Lenny release goal.

 [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/05/msg00490.html

So it was meant as: unpack, build, clean, build

Recently this appeared again on debian-devel list [2].

 [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/12/msg00585.html

Regards,
Salvatore
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