E package-installs-packlist

All reports of package-installs-packlist for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

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 | xargs rm -f

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.

Refer to Debian Perl Policy section 4.1 (Vendor Directories) for details.

Severity: important, Certainty: certain

The package names link to the relevant maintainer page and the corresponding report for the source package. The links go to the full maintainer report page, which includes info and experimental tags and overridden tags, rather than the default page that shows only errors and warnings.

libauthen-dechpwd-perl (binary)

libauthen-passphrase-perl (binary)

libcrypt-mysql-perl (binary)

libdata-entropy-perl (binary)

libdata-float-perl (binary)

libscalar-string-perl (binary)