[hardy] gitk installing files where it shouldn't be

[Kow]

Binary package hint: git

The latest gitk release just put into the hardy repos (1:1.5.3.6-1) is installing files to locations it shouldnt be (or files that shouldn't be copied at all).

Here is one from debian/rules:
"rm -f '$(GIT)'-core/usr/share/perl5/Error.pm"

This is obviously not meeting the LFS standards and conflicts with such packages such as:

"E: /var/cache/apt/archives/git-core_1%3a1.5.3.6-1_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite `/usr/share/perl5/Error.pm', which is also in package liberror-perl"

There are other files that seem suspicious, like
"rm -f '$(GIT)'-core/usr/share/man/man3/private-Error.3pm"

This bug report may need to be transferred upstream to Debian.

[Kow (kow)]

Duh thats a remove command. So the real problem is these files are not being removed as they should be.

[Kow (kow)]

Mistake

[Kow (kow)]

Ugh not a good day. that "Mistake" is in regard to Affects: "git-core (Baltix)"

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[Kow (kow)]

This looks like a permissions issue. Why not just remove /usr/share/perl5/Error.pm from git-core in <git-core-src>/perl/Makefile ?

# We come with our own bundled Error.pm. It's not in the set of default
# Perl modules so install it if it's not available on the system yet.
eval { require Error };
if ($@ || $Error::VERSION < 0.15009) {
 $pm{'private-Error.pm'} = '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Error.pm';
}

Comment that out, depends are set correctly in debian/control to ensure Error.pm will be there (provided by liberror-perl).