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 -deleteor 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
Check: files, Type: binary, udeb
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