Bug#458143: libpod-simple-perl FTBFS with perl from experimental

[Russ Allbery]

peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> writes:

> package: libpod-simple-perl
> severity: important
>
> While trying to rebuild your package against the version of perl and 
> associated packages from experimental I got the following error:
>
> rmdir: failed to remove 
> `/libpod-simple-perl-3.05/debian/libpod-simple-perl/usr/lib/perl5': No 
> such file or directory
>
> Since this seems to be caused by the directory simply never being 
> created prefixing the line in the makefile with a - seems like the most 
> sensible fix

Ah, it looks like the new version of Perl finally fixes the long-standing
bug that causes these empty directories to be created.

The best fix is probably to switch to the new way of invoking Makefile.PL
so that the directory isn't created in the first place with the current
version of Perl.  I bet a ton of our packages have this problem.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>