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 -- .''`. 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: Carole King: No Easy Way Down
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