On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:08:33PM -0800, Mark Glines wrote: > Due to the existence of very convenient debianisation commands > such as dh-make-perl and debuild, making a debian package from a > perlmodule has become stupefyingly easy nowadays. However, it still > requires you to "look Module::Name", and at the shell prompt run > dh-make-perl and debuild. The horror, the humanity. > > I've added a "debuild" command to CPAN.pm, to further appease my > increasingly lazy self. If running dh-make-perl succeeds, it runs > debuild. If either fails, it should kick an appropriate warning. > > It SHOULD check whether the devscripts and dh-make-perl packages are > installed beforehand. I don't know of a way to do this without > running dpkg (and the processing overhead incurred from that), so > that part is not yet implemented. However, it works without it. > Please find attached my patch - do you feel this is the Right Way > to do this?
Thanks for your contribution, and I'm sorry that it's languished with no reply for so long. I haven't reviewed your patch, but the functionality you describe is basically sound. However, it should be integrated with the functionality requested in <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504318>, because we should be preferring already-existing Perl packages (of which there are many more now than in 2002) over building our own. CCing to debian-perl in case anyone has any interest in working on this area, or indeed can tell me that there is a working version of something similar somewhere that I don't know about. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
