RE: getting dh-make-perl working

["Julian Mehnle" <bulk@mehnle.net>]

Jens Porup wrote:
> After struggling on and off for several days with ExtUtils::MakeMaker, I
> stumbled across Module::Build. Is the consensus that this is the way to
> go, instead of MakeMaker?

I don't know about the consensus, but I'm using it for all my Perl/CPAN
packages.

> More importantly, I am confused on some very fundamental ideas of
> packaging. (This is my first experience trying to make .deb's.)

dh-make-perl doesn't work properly with Module::Build just yet.  My advice
is to forget dh-make-perl and design your own Debian package control
files.  You can use those of one of my Module::Build-based packages as
template:

  http://search.cpan.org/src/JMEHNLE/Apache-Auth-UserDB-0.11/debian/