Re: Report from the (unofficial) Debian Perl Sprint in Hamburg (May 2022)
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 at 22:50, gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> wrote:
>
> (Unofficial) Debian Perl Sprint 2022
> ====================================
>
> Introduction
> ------------
>
> 3 members of the Debian Perl Group met in Hamburg between May 23 and May 30
> 2022 as part of the [Debian Reunion Hamburg] and conducted an "unofficial"
> sprint, i.e. worked on our packages and tools without prior announcement and
> planning.
>
> The participants would like to thank the [Debian Reunion Hamburg] organizers
> for providing the framework for our sprint, all sponsors of the event, and
> all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover parts of our expenses.
>
> [Debian Reunion Hamburg]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2022/DebianReunionHamburg
>
> Summary
> -------
>
> * Tooling
> - new tool: *dpt-prepare*: prepare yourself and a source code directory
> before working on a package
> - new tool: *dpt-fixup*: apply some automatic fixes to packaging
> - new module: *Debian::PkgPerl::Util*: utility functions for PkgPerl
> tools, currently provides *probable_build_dependency()*
> - new library: *dpt-lib.sh*: shell library for dpt-* scripts
> - new module: *Debian::Upstream::Metadata::Perl*: create
> *debian/upstream/metadata* (used by *dh-make-perl* and
> *dpt-debian-upstream*)
> - *dh-make-perl*: new option *--guess-nocheck* to add <!nocheck>
> - various small improvemens in *dh-make-perl* and *dpt-\**
<snip>
This looks like a lot of great work was achieved at the sprint - I
will have to investigate the dpt and dh-make-perl improvements over
the coming weeks.
Cheers,
Nick
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