dh-make-perl : next step ?

[Marc Chantreux <marc.chantreux@ulpmm.u-strasbg.fr>]

Hi all,

As i'm not skilled to create debian packages, i used to use dh-make-perl 
every time. Unfortunalty, Gunnar has no more time to work on it and i 
still need it.

I provided some patches but dh-make-perl code is really hard to 
understand and improve (imho). So i wrote a simple script to extract 
informations from Makefile.PL that seems to work with Module::Build and 
MakeMaker (dh-make-perl failed on same files).

You can see code and exemple here :

http://staff.u-strasbg.fr/~mc/dmp_ng/

I think it can be the base of a complete rewrite that would be easier to 
maintain but i'm not aware enought about the debian packaging process :

- is it still a good idea to work on such a tool?
- is there some document that provides the state for art for packaging 
from cpan ?

Just thoughts for the moment so i'll really appreciate comments and advices.

regards
mc