Re: libtk-pod-perl update ready to upload

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

Gunnar:

Thanks for the corrections.  I made the mistake of not double checking the 
build with pbuilder this time.  However, when I build the new version is 
seems to show the same error for Pod::Simple so that should be included in 
the Build-Depends as well.  My question is if the same packages need to be 
included in the Depends: as well.  After all if they are necessary to 
build the package, perhaps they are also necessary for its execution.  Is 
there an automatic way of getting these included or is a manual insertion 
required?

As for the change to the clean rule, I will make these changes to all of 
the modules I am working on.

Carlo


On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

> Carlo Segre dijo [Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:42:57AM -0500]:
> > I have uploaded a new version of libtk-pod-perl to alioth.  If someone
> > could upload it I would appreciate it.
> >
> > The source tarball can be found at
> >
> > http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Tk/Tk-Pod-(0.9930).tar.gz
>
> Hmmm... I don't think it'll work - From the build process:
>
> Warning: prerequisite Text::English 0 not found.
> Warning: prerequisite Tk::HistEntry 0.4 not found.
>
> I added them to debian/control
>
> Now, I see you didn't 'make test' because you don't always have an X
> server available for tests... I am leaving it as it was. But there is
> one point I got an attention call in dh-make-perl, and I'd like to
> propagate to other modules - See bug report #325452 for further
> details: It is a common practice to see this:
>
> clean:
> 	(...)
>        -$(MAKE) clean
>
> This means we will simply ignore the result of 'make clean', which can
> terribly fail - I am replacing it by:
>
> 	 [ ! -f Makefile ] || $(MAKE) clean
>
> And I invite you all to do the same in any modules you maintain. Of
> course, I am doing this same change in your module.
>
> Greetings,

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