Bug#788883: perl: drop (most of) debian/prefix_changes.diff

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:39:36PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 12:21:01AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > I think it's high time we dropped the EU:MM changes that still allow
> >  make install PREFIX=something
> > to work with Makefile.PL based packages. Upstream has recommended DESTDIR
> > instead since 2002, see #568748 and #545904.
> > 
> > There's been a somewhat heuristic lintian check for five years visible at
> >  https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated.html
> > and it's currently down to 55 packages. The logic in the check is basically
> >   tag if ($uses_makefile_pl && /install.*PREFIX/ && !/DESTDIR/)
> 
> Wow, I was completely unaware of this :)

Heh :)

> Well, I should be covering all of the potentially affected packages
> with my Depends: perl rebuild test which I'm running at the moment[1]
> with perl 5.22. So I'd say add the patch to the next upload of perl
> 5.22 to experimental and then we can get the test coverage we need
> the next time I do a full rebuild as part of the perl 5.22 QA work.

Ack, sounds good. Not sure how soon I can get that done though.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org