Re: Help needed on a bindings package
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:14:36PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I'm working on a new upstream version of graphviz and willing to split
> the package in several parts, including perl bindings, and I'd like
> some help on it, since it looks to me that there's no such entry in the
> Perl Policy.
>
> You can find the -perl package at [1] in case you want to have a look
> directly at *.pm, *.so, etc.
>
> 1. http://kibi.sysif.net/pub/packages/graphviz-2.12/libgraphviz-perl_2.12-1_i386.deb
The name libgraphviz-perl clashes with the pure perl package which I
currently maintain, which uses graphviz.
libgv-perl looks like being a better name though I haven't inspected
your package closely.
> Here is the list of its content:
>
> $ dpkg --contents /var/cache/pbuilder/result/libgraphviz-perl_2.12-1_i386.deb \
> | cut -b 49-
> | ./
> | ./usr/
> | ./usr/lib/
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/gv.pm
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/gv_perl.man
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/libgv_perl.so.0.0.0
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/libgv_perl.la
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/libgv_perl.so.0 -> libgv_perl.so.0.0.0
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/libgv_perl.so -> libgv_perl.so.0.0.0
> | ./usr/lib/graphviz/perl/gv.so -> libgv_perl.so
> | ./usr/share/
> | ./usr/share/doc/
> | ./usr/share/doc/libgraphviz-perl/
> | ./usr/share/doc/libgraphviz-perl/copyright
> | ./usr/share/doc/libgraphviz-perl/changelog.gz
> | ./usr/share/doc/libgraphviz-perl/changelog.Debian.gz
>
> It is exactly as installed by upstream, at the moment. I guess that it might be
> needed to move things under /usr/lib/perl5 (vendor branch), but I'm not sure
> about the exact location of each file (shall I create a subdirectory to put the
> libs in, adapt the pm file to use it, etc.).
>
> Any help and pointer to documentation would be appreciated.
Yes, /usr/lib/perl5 is the correct location for arch-dependent perl
packages. Perl policy is at
http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/
and has more details.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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