Re: Building a clean debian perl package

[Steffen Mueller <l2ot9pa02@sneakemail.com>]

Hi Damyan,

Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> I wanted to try this myself, bug the version from CPAN (0.05) seems to
> use rather non-standard layout and dh-make-perl can't handle it:
> 
> $ tar tzf Audio-Gramofile-0.05.tar.gz
> Audio/
> Audio/Gramofile/
> Audio/Gramofile/Gramofile.pm
> Audio/Gramofile/Changes
> Audio/Gramofile/examples/
> Audio/Gramofile/examples/process_wav.pl
> Audio/Gramofile/Gramofile.xs
> Audio/Gramofile/MANIFEST
> Audio/Gramofile/Makefile.PL
> Audio/Gramofile/README
> Audio/Gramofile/ppport.h
> Audio/Gramofile/typemap
> Audio/Gramofile/t/
> Audio/Gramofile/t/1.t
> Audio/Gramofile/gramofile.h

please consider contacting or filing a bug report with the author of
that module. "Rather non-standard" is really conservative here. At the
very least, the top level directory should resemble the .tar.gz's
basename. In fact, that would almost be enough to make it one of the two
common layouts, i.e. s/Audio\/Gramofile/Audio-Gramofile-0.05/g as recent
MakeMakers should produce by default during "make dist".

Best regards,
Steffen