On Fri, 08 May 2009 11:39:57 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Practice, however shos that both work just fine. Is there a case when
> using Makefile.PL instead of Build.PL has caused problems?
It causes problem in the cases where Makefile.PL uses M:B:Compat, but
that should be fixed anyway.
> > In this case, it means that Makefile.PL will not pick up things like
> > 'suggests' and 'recommends' and 'conflicts'. On the other hand, these
> > can always be picked up by the debhelper scripts via META.yml. I,
> er, debhelper has nothing to do with META :)
sub process_meta {} in lib/DhMakePerl.pm seems to disagree :)
(But in that case META.yml is only used for name, description,
license, and not for dealing with relationships, AFAICS.)
> > however, don't know the source of that stuff for dh-make-perl.
> Currently there is no such thing. I am working on adding support to
> generic debian/control file handling that also allows for easy
> synchronisation between META.yml and debian/control. Stay tuned,
> commit expeced to happen this week(-end).
Nice :)
Cheers,
gregor
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