On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
CPANPLUS will be the main
CPAN infrastructure starting with Perl 5.10 (due Real Soon Now). This
has major implications for our group, specially for dh-make-perl, as
we are probably duplicating work by now - Via the CPANPLUS Dist::Deb
[5] infrastructure
You can find the instructions to use the repository here:
http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/
These packages are built with a different prefix (cpan-) and are
installed in user space on debian boxes, rather than in the official
debian locations to avoid conflicts. More details on this on the
above instructions page.
However, the same APIs used to build the custom packages, can also
be used to create 'proper' debian packages, which can go through
your QA procedure before being integrated in the official releases,
hopefully eliminating a lot of the tedious, repetitive work needed
to release CPAN modules, allowing you to focus on the more important
QA aspects.
I've talked at length with Jeremiah about this, and we found that
it's basically a matter of 'just doing it' to make this work, as
all the needed interfaces are there.
Jeremiah's been investigating how to do this best and I've offered
him, and by proxy you all, my best efforts to assist him in doing
so.