On Fri, 08 May 2009 09:46:25 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Because ExtUtils::MakeMaker goes way back in Perl (it's really really
> really old stuff), pretty much every installation of Perl will also
> have EUMM. On the other hand, this is not so with M::B.
[..]
> * Have only a Build.PL. If Module::Build isn't installed then the
> module will break completely.
That's not an issue in debian since M::B is included in perl-modules
since 5.10 (which is shipped in lenny). (And for perl < 5.10 packages
can still build-depend on libmidules-build-perl.)
> What we might be able to do is use Ryan's idea in the interim -
> providing an environment variable to do that stuff. In that case, the
> pkg-perl team could do a trial run using that (or simply patch
> debhelper locally for our machines) and see if we ever come across a
> module that breaks due to that. If we try it for a few months with no
> breakages then I think we have a much better argument to submit
> upstream to Joey et al.
Using a locally patched debhelper for creating packages that are
uploaded to the debian archive doesn't sound like a good idea :)
JFTR: I'm not opposed to the switch in general, it's just don't I
don't see practical advantages for us yet.
Cheers,
gregor
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