genome-vendor/bioperl-ext — comment on commit 5222939e5d81e724f38a7a4db5aefddf58b909cd
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By nnutter:

I don't think these are local in the sense that they aren't useful for others. We needed a deb package for this Perl module (there were already debs for the main BioPerl modules). However, the additions to debian/rules should probably really be part of Makefile.pl as these were meant to accommodate for missing steps after dh-make-perl processed Makefile.pl.

Unfortunately, the developer that originally did this is not with our team anymore so I don't know exactly what this was meant to solve. Based on the paths I would guess that the libs related to the XS modules were missing from the deb without the additional rules.