Bug#871672: libfile-sharedir-perl: files installed from CPAN not installed by apt

Ricardo SIGNES rjbs at cpan.org
Thu Aug 10 15:03:36 UTC 2017


Package: libfile-sharedir-perl
Version: 1.102-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

libfile-sharedir-perl is a packaging of File-ShareDir from CPAN.

File-ShareDir installs two files to the share directory, sample.txt and
subdir/sample.txt .  These files can be used for test purposes by downstream
libraries and, in fact, are used by the tests for Path-Resolver.  This means
that Path-Resolver's tests from CPAN do not pass if File-ShareDir was installed
from apt instead of from CPAN, which can lead to confusion on the part of a
user who just wants to install some libraries and move on.

I don't know the Debian packaging system, but the `rm` in this program seems
like the likely culprit:

https://sources.debian.net/src/libfile-sharedir-perl/1.102-1/debian/rules/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.8.3-x86_64-linode76 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)



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