Re: dh-make-perl on HTML::Widget fails

[Krzysztof Krzyzaniak <eloy@kofeina.net>]

Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>   Hi.
>
>
> [I hope it is okay to ask this here; feel free to direct/correct me.]
>
> I'm trying to roll my own libhtml-widget-perl using dh-make-perl, but
> I get this odd error:
>
>  $ dh-make-perl --build --cpan HTML::Widget
>  [...]
>  HTML-Widget-1.03/t/filter_trimedges.t
>  HTML-Widget-1.03/t/filter_uppercase.t
>  HTML-Widget-1.03/t/filter_whitespace.t
>  Found: HTML-Widget 1.03 (libhtml-widget-perl arch=all)
>  Unquoted string "name" may clash with future reserved word at /home/asjo/tmp/deb
>  /HTML-Widget-1.03/Makefile.PL line 3.
>  String found where operator expected at /home/asjo/tmp/deb/HTML-Widget-1.03/Make
>  file.PL line 3, near "name 'HTML-Widget'"
>          (Do you need to predeclare name?)
>  String found where operator expected at /home/asjo/tmp/deb/HTML-Widget-1.03/Make
>  file.PL line 4, near "all_from 'lib/HTML/Widget.pm'"
>          (Do you need to predeclare all_from?)
>  Error: syntax error at /home/asjo/tmp/deb/HTML-Widget-1.03/Makefile.PL line 3, n
>  ear "name 'HTML-Widget'"
>  Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Module/Depends/Intrusive.pm li
>  ne 76.
>
>  $
>
> If I thereafter go to the source-directory and manually execute "perl
> Makefile.PL", I do not get any errors:
>
>  $ perl Makefile.PL 
>  Cannot determine perl version info from lib/HTML/Widget.pm
>  *** Module::AutoInstall version 1.01
[..]

It's beacue dh-make-perl doesn't support Module::AutoInstall modules.

> I'm not quite sure what to make of the error/how to fix/debug it, any
> pointers/ideas?

I have this packaged for Catalyst Team. I will make ITP soon. If you 
want to you can grab sources from http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-catalyst
(svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-catalyst/), wait for official package or just 
ask me for deb package :-)

  eloy
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