-=| Peter Roberts, 08.03.2014 13:21:40 +0000 |=- > My first question to the list so apologies if I make any mistakes, > I'm here to learn :). > > I have a perl module which I want to package, App::DDFlare, which > provides an application as the name suggests. Thus it has been > suggested to name the package ddflare as opposed to > libapp-ddflare-perl, which I think is a great idea (thanks gregoa). > > Really this application should be installed as a service though but > I'm wondering if it is considered bad form to have a module perform > this kind of installation? What do you mean by "a service"? If you mean something that starts from /etc/init.d, then there is no real problem with that. It is not really "a module", but that can also be said for packages like munin-node, kgb-bot and other services implemented in Perl. As for installation, I think there is no universal way to do this via Makefile.PL or similar. Instead, I'd put the relevant ddflare.init file under debian/ (that is, in the packaging, not upstream) and let debhelper do its job. Hope this helps, dam
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