Could Debian Perl team take over PDL?

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 02:51:11AM +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:

> Only a few hardening lintian issues remain (mostly
> no-fortify-functions), that I've not been able to resolve yet. More
> importantly we should get the two binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath errors
> resolved. The tests failures are also not fixed yet.

Thanks for your work, this is awesome!

I skimmed through the pdl packaging in git, and a few things I noticed:

- the scantree.pl call in pdl.postinst can't work without
  doc_dirlist.patch I think? It's passing in multiple directories but
  the unpatched scantree.pl doesn't handle those

- the existing slatec_default_integer_8.patch fixes all the test failures
  expect t/minuit.t for me on amd64

- the existing minuit_default_integer_8.patch fixes the remaining one

- there's some trivial conflict between the new spelling-errors.patch
  and minuit_default_integer_8.patch, resolved with the attached patch

- I was a bit surprised that doc_vendor_install.patch is now needed, but
  apparently it's because upstream v2.007_03 added a "missing"
  doc_vendor_install target to Makefile.PL. Conceptually, running
  scantree.pl and mkhtmldoc.pl  during the package build/install
  phase seems useless to me, as they will be re-run from the postinst
  when the package is actually installed. I'm not sure if it would
  make more sense to just patch that away from Makefile.PL? And
  if we don't, I guess the results shouldn't go in places like
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.22/PDL/HtmlDocs but rather under
  /var ?

Hope this makes sense; I'm still far from a domain expert on the PDL stuff...
-- 
Niko
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