Re: Building a clean debian perl package
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:21:11PM +0100, Steffen Mueller wrote:
> 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".
Hi Steffen
Consider the author contacted! I did build that version a
number of years ago and have not (prior to this exchange) been
told the error of my ways. I shall use "make dist" in future.
> Best regards,
> Steffen
Bob
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