Re: Packaging "bundled" Perl distribution
Dominique,
If it's bundled upstream, and it's needed in Debian, then I thnink
it's fair to package it as: libdist-zilla-plugins-cjm-perl. If people
need to find the constituent modules, they can use dh-make-perl locate
or apt-file search per usual.
Especially when the bundle isn't that big (23.8KB from search.c.o), I
think it's best to keep 1 source tarball + 1 source package + 1 binary
package, containing all the needed modules. Trying to do anything
non-standard like split the modules up into several binary packages is
possible, but usually only required for huge projects (like KDE, which
runs into 100 MB+) and where people would often want separate things.
In my opinion, you should therefore:
> - produce only one noarch package (libdist-zilla-plugins-cjm-perl with its
> meaningless name)
I think the main argument against bundles is where we have separate
modules upstream and a bundled module in Debian (e.g. several source
tarballs, 1 source package, 1 binary package). They are more difficult
to maintain (though periapt's discussion looks promising), but this
does not apply to your specific case here.
Cheers,
Jonathan
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Dominique Dumont
<dominique.dumont@hp.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm planning to package Dist-Zilla-Plugins-CJM [1] which is a bundle of
> Dist::Zilla plugins.
>
> From this Perl distribution, I plan to maintain only one source package
> (libdist-zilla-plugins-cjm-perl).
>
> Should I:
> - produce only one noarch package (libdist-zilla-plugins-cjm-perl with its
> meaningless name)
> - several noarch packages mathing the name of the packaged Perl module...
>
> Thanks for advices
>
> All the best
>
> Dominique
>
> [1] http://search.cpan.org/~cjm/Dist-Zilla-Plugins-CJM-3.01/
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