Packaging effort for Perl Debs

[Simon Waters <simon@technocool.net>]

I asked some general questions on the state of Perl and Debian here;

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/281

Probably the wrong place, but hey I'm learning quickly.

I'm wondering how much effort is involved in maintaining a (simple) 
Debian Perl package, in terms of hours per week.

Especially since some of those that I would like to use are "fairly 
mainstream" Perl modules, and typically they have limited "complexity" 
(well compared to say libapache2-mod-perl2).

It looks like it requires quite some knowledge of the Debian packaging 
system, not least because all the easy stuff appears to be automated 
leaving only the difficult stuff (eek).

I'm assuming from the limited number of packages in the CPAN debs 
repository (and Debian), that either it is more difficult to automate 
than it appears, or Jos was expecting a lot of Debian developers to 
appear and take over the work, or possibly Jos uses cpanplus and has all 
the debs he needs ;)