-=| Nicolas Mendoza, Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:18:09PM +0100 |=- > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:42:28 +0100, Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> wrote: > >> -=| Nicolas Mendoza, Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:18:48PM +0100 |=- >>> Also, about patching dh-make-perl, has anyone added support for >>> parsing META.yml and being able to provide --name >>> 'libsome-different-name-perl' at the command line? I have added this >>> for my own dh-make-perl (well I actually haven't integrated the >>> META-yml parsing inside it, just a separate command that outputs >>> debian-style names of dependecies) >> >> --name would be bad. There is a reason for naming packages in certain >> way. If you don't agree with that, edit changelog and control and >> prepare to defend your choice :) > > I've needed that when we have made local changes to a package, and > didn't want/need/could send patches upstream. also conflicts, > provides and replaces fields added of course so the system was > happy. Well, I just don't want such behaviour exposed to users by *dh-make-perl*. Moreover, you'd use it only once for each package so no much of a help anyway. >> As for META.yml, which version of dh-make-perl you tried last? The >> current one uses CPAN methds for finding dependencies and I think this >> includes META stuff. "dh-make-perl --cpan Foo-Bar" > > hmm, I know the one in my ubuntu is more robust than the one in > debian stable. BUt I thought it still didn't look into META.yml, > will look again. Depends on which stable you mean. Lenny has a pretty recent version. Etch version surely is from another era. -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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