Re: dh-make-perl plans

[Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>]

On Mar 12, 2010, at 17:30, Jozef Kutej wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> checkout the:
> 
> http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/dpkg-scanpmpackages
> http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/apt-pm/lib/Apt/PM.pm?view=markup
> 
> the Apt::PM should help answering the question of which is the minimal Debian
> version for some CPAN version to set in debian/control.
> 
> dpkg-scanpmpackages works on complete Debian mirror as well as on local folder
> repository.
> 
> Any comments are welcome!

Cool!

While we're on the subject, Leon Brocard made a tool to find and cache versions of perl modules in various distributions. Might be something worth looking at and steal some code from or contribute to.
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/Module-Packaged/Module/Packaged.html


Jeremiah