Bug#517423: dh-make-perl: Should ignore $HOME/.modulebuildrc

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at 2008.43-1.org
Sun Mar 8 23:03:31 UTC 2009


Hi,

Damyan Ivanov <dmn at debian.org> writes:

> That won't work with short DH7 debian/rules dh-make-perl uses 
> nowadays.
>
> I guess putting MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null in the environment before 
> firing dpkg-buildpackage is a better idea (provided that 
> dpkg-buildpackage doesn't sanitize the environment).

What about patching dh_auto_{configure,build} to export MODULEBUILDRC?
Building Debian packages should not depend on the user's environment
after all.

The quilt makefile snippet handles the situation similar: it passes
--quiltrc /dev/null explicitly whenever quilt is called.

Regards,
Ansgar

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