Lintian tag: package-installs-packlist

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Packages built using the perl MakeMaker package will have a file named
.packlist in them. Those files are useless, and (in some cases) have the
additional problem of creating an architecture-specific directory name in
an architecture-independent package.

They can be suppressed by adding the following to debian/rules:

find debian/*pkg* -type f -name .packlist -delete

or by telling MakeMaker to use vendor install dirs; consult a recent
version of Perl policy. Perl 5.6.0-12 or higher supports this.

Please refer to Vendor Directories (Section 4.1) in the Debian Perl Policy
for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: languages/perl

Affected packages

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