-=| Jeremiah C. Foster, Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 12:26:59PM +0200 |=- > > On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:01:21 -0300, gregor herrmann wrote: > Now I know this is a lot of extra work, moving internal debian tools > like dh-make-perl to CPAN, but I think it would be hugely useful. > > Why? Because; > > 1. Perl hackers would get tools to build debs that are built by > people who follow debian perl policy automatically increasing their > quality. I thnk you overestimate the work done by dh-make-perl a bit :) Yes, it does a lot of boring work automaticaly, and this is very good thing, no doubt. However, I often find out that the real work starts just after dh-make-perl has created the skeleton - license checks, build problems, Policy compliance, etc, etc Even if I don't understand the benefit of havinng all CPAN mass-built as .debs, it seems people want that and if they find dh-make-perl useful for this, be our guests :) > 2. Very useful debian tools would get polish and additional code from > some smart perl hackers. Yeah. dh-make-perl needs some retought/redesign/rewrite as it doesn't look very good inside. Reminds me a famous Italian meal :)a I confess I have my part of the blame for this. > 3. Documentation would have to be improved by default because of > increased public consumption. (Or that is the hope anyway. :) ) > > Can we move some of the dh-make-perl stuff to CPAN? I am willing to > do the work, or at least some of it. I am not sure I fully understand what you mean. I am used to think of CPAN as a place where 'upstream authors' work. And as I prefer to have the group as 'upstream' for dh-make-perl, I am confused. > > > Bugs > > > ---- > > > * We have many old minor bugs open, we need somebody to triage them. > > > > Yes. > > I have been thinking about writing some documentation regarding > this, especially after reading emails sent by ntyni (as well as dam, > gregoa, gwolf, djpig, et. al.) and being amazed at their ability to > locate the source of what appear to me to be really complex > problems. Would you guys be willing to have me "interview" you > via email regarding the triage process so I can create > a more "entry-level" document for those of us who do not have your > gifts? That would be interesting to have. -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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