Bug#700470: libmouse-perl: lack of error handling in the build can lead to broken packages.

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:03:49PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> The most obvious fix would be for those XSUtil.pm functions to return
> non-zero, but what other options do we have? dh_auto_configure could
> be paranoid, and, when run in Makefile.PL mode, look to see whether
> there is a Makefile itself and exit non-zero if there isn't.

After further reflection (and writing a patch for debhelper), I think
this is the wrong thing to do; it would have fixed this issue, but in
doing so helps to hide a possible variant where a Makefile is left over
from a previous run. I think the problem has to be fixed in the package
build system rather than in debhelper.

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