Re: 1st try at packaging perl program
On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote:
> this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I
> think it is relevant to this list.
>
> I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game
> that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*).
>
> I build it w/ the help of the "New Maintainer's Guide", the
> "Packaging Manual", the devel, mentors and perl mailing lists. There
> are still a few things that I don't understand, such as that below.
>
> Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian
> package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)?
apt-get source lib*-perl should do it.
> Also, I read in last February's perl archive about Joey's
> CPAN::Debian and about Lupus's work in the same direction. Has anyone
> used them? I downloaded CPAN::Debian, but didn't look at it yet.
Use dh-make-perl (available in testing and unstable).
> ### Lintian complains that :
>
> W: bloksi: perl-script-needs-dependency "libgtk-perl" ./usr/games/bloksi use Gtk
lintian gets the perl modules wrong most of the time.
> I tried the following lines in the 1st paragraph of the rules files
>
> Depends: perl, libgtk-perl, libgnome-perl, libgtk-imlib-perl
>
> and
>
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${perl:Depends}
>
> without results.
${shlibs:Depends} will probably be empty because there is no binary
inside the package. ${perl:Depends} 'requires' that you use debhelper
and dh_perl in debian/rules.
lupus
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