It should be noted that kane (Jos Boumans) wrote something to create debs from CPAN dists automagically. I don't know how well it actually works in practice, though -- sometimes developer intervention and testing is a good thing. See: http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/ See also, something I found in Google from Joey Hess: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-perl@lists.debian.org/msg02466.html