-=| gregor herrmann, Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 03:21:56AM +0100 |=- > On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:46:45 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > > Heh, perhaps dh-make-perl can be made to check whether the package > > requested to be created already exists :) > > Despite the smiley that might actually be a nice idea, then people > would just have to remember "dh-make-perl --cpan Foo::Bar --build" > (or we could provide a wrapper with a shorter name; cpan2deb?) and if > the package already exists dh-make-perl says "Hey, why not just run > `aptitude install libFOO-BAR-perl'?". First-take implementation committed. It checks if there is a package by the same name or packages containing such Perl modules and complains accordingly. The check is done *after* all work is done, i.e. downloaded from CPAN, etc. I was thinking about an --avoid-existing option that should kick-in before any work is done, but this is not trivial. The information needed for the check -- package name and "perlname" (Foo-Bar) -- is not guaranteed to be available or acurate before the actual source is available, which means download from CPAN. Thanks Gregor and Don for your suggestions! -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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