Bug#914128: perl: usrmerge issues

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 09:55:38PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 04:36:10PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

> > Attached patch also fixes these issues, by adjusting libpth and libspath
> > in debian/config.over ... it feels a little hackish ... but ...
> 
> Yeah. The "pristine" probed values of libpth and libspath on a
> non-usrmerged system look messy enough (/lib/../lib and the like) that
> it might be more robust to just override them to some cleaner hardcoded
> values rather than have more logic that tries to imitate the mess on
> usrmerged systems. But I'll see how that works out.

For the record, I came up with a cleaner fix (calling realpath with
--no-symlinks in libpth.U). It's specific to 5.34 which has changes
in that unit, so I expect I won't be fixing this in the 5.32 series.

Will upload the 5.34 fixes to experimental this weekend or so.

Thanks again,
-- 
Niko