On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:11:45 +0200, Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
> First, thanks to anonymous who checked my packaging for
> libspreadsheet-read-perl.
"svn blame" is your friend :)
(Or just "svn log".)
(It was me, and I will try to remember adding my name to comments.)
> - libtext-csv-perl is twice in Depends, with different versions - ?!
> maybe the second should be libtext-csv-xs-perl?
> I am not sure how that happened, I am certain it was not manual. I
> suspect I have to check the mechanism by which that field gets
> populated automatically.
It might have been created by dh-make-perl but that script only makes
suggestions that need human checks,
> - most tests are skipped, some build dependencies might help
> I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean adding something like
> libtest-pod-coverage, which is used by some of the tests, to the
> control file so that the tests are run?
Yup, that's what I meant, sorry for my sparse comments.
> - Makefile.PL talks about Spreadsheet::ReadSXC which is not in Debian
> (ok, according to META.yml it's optional; META.yml is in general nice to
> check Depends/Recommends/Suggests for the package)
> I suppose I should go through the META.yml file and pick out
> potential Depends/Recommends/Suggests, is there an automated way to
> do this? *wheels turn*
None that I know of (besides dh-make-perl which uses META.yml if it's
present but I'm not sure about the dependency handling off the top of
my head).
Cheers,
gregor
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