Re: Bug#493595: RFP: libtest-dependencies-perl -- This modules allows one to ensure that your perl Makefile.PL specifies all necessary perl dependencies.

> -=| Jeremiah C. Foster, Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:25:14AM +0200 |=-
> > > On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:33:35 +0200, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
> > > 
> > > > * Package name    : libtest-dependencies-perl
> > > Needs the following modules for which there are no debian packages 
> > > available
> > >  - B::PerlReq
> > >  - Pod::Strip
> > >  - PerlReq::Utils
> > 
> > Yikes. Need to package all of CPAN nearly.
> 
> I think we'll inevitably package at least the useful part of CPAN :)
> 
> > Perhaps he can depend on fewer CPAN modules.
> 
> Well, I noticd that libtest-dependencies-perl is also used in 
> PoCoServerSOAP tests, as well so it is worth the effort.

Good to know.
 
> If you can compile a list of all missing modules (the ones above plus 
> their dependencies), then we can share the load. We have done this 
> before and the results were very good.

I have started a bit of list; 

    * Test::Spelling  (package created, sitting in debian's svn repo)
    * Directory::Scratch
    * Data::TreeDumper::Renderer::GTK
    * Data::TreeDumper
    * Test::Dependencies
    * Module::Util
    * Eval::Context
    * Test::Block
    * Directory::Scratch::Structured
    * Test::Strict

But that is just the list of CPAN modules that asciio depends on, not
their CPAN dependencies nor their operating system dependencies. I
will try to compose a list of CPAN dependencies.

I hope to hack on this the next week or so because I told the asciio
author (Nadim Khemir) that I would package it for him. Ha ha ha, poor
guy, he has no idea what a slacker I am. Now here I am, about to see
him in Copenhagen face to face. As you can imagine any help I get I
greatly appreciate. :)

Cheers,
	Jeremiah