On Thu, 07 May 2009 23:49:48 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > It's somewhat surprising to me that these Perl module-specific things > are dealt with in a package that is out of our control (ie debhelper). Well, there's no requirement to use dh-make-perl for packaging perl stuff, and debhelper tries to cater to all kind of build systems (autotools, python, perl, ...) > In that case, getting a bug fix submitted/discussed/dealt with might > not be worth the effort. Joey is usually happy about and responsive to patches, and it wouldn't be the first perl-specific patch he incorporates. > > Well, seems like there are at least 2 bugs in M:B:C which should be > > fixed instead of worked around :) > You're correct here. But one thing that I neglected to mention in the > initial e-mail is that Makefile.PL (via EUMM or passthrough) cannot > handle the types of complex dependencies that Build.PL can. What I > mean by that is, M::B can handle "recommends" relationships. At least at the moment that doesn't buy us anything, unless I'm missing something. Of course dh-make-perl could try to get more and more fine grained information from Makefile.PL, Build.PL and META.yml when creating debian/control (i.e. add upstream "recommends" as Debian "Suggests:"). Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Home: http://info.comodo.priv.at/{,blog/} / GPG Key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Penelope Swales: Said So
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