On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:05:59 +0100, Andreas Vögele wrote: > my Name is Andreas Vögele. I'm VOEGELAS on CPAN and voegelas on Salsa. Hi, and thanks for reaching out! > I'd like to package my Perl module IP::Geolocation::MMDB and its > prerequisite Alien::libmaxminddb. Cool. > While Alien::libmaxminddb depends on Alien::Build and its dependencies, the > built IP::Geolocation::MMDB module does only depend on libmaxminddb and > modules that are distributed with Perl. As a technical side note, in Debian we often go ahead without packaging Alien::libfoo because we know that we have libfoo and we can use libfoo-dev at buildtime (and we don't want to try and download something from the 'net anyway). Patching out the Alien::* stuff from Makefile.PL or Build.PL and setting LIB and INC either manually or with the help of ExtUtils::PkgConfig is often trivial. [0] > Once the modules are available as packages, I'd like to get support for > IP::Geolocation::MMDB into SpamAssassin as an alternative to the deprecated > MaxMind::DB::Reader module. Sounds good. > I build Debian packages at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:voegelas/perl-IP-Geolocation-MMDB > and I maintain Fedora packages. That's a good start :) > Right now, I'm reading documents from https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/, > but I'm not sure where to begin. Should I create an RFP and wait for > approval or rejection? Should I ask to become a member of the Debian Perl > Group? Depends on your aim: - If you "just" want to get IP::Geolocation::MMDB into Debian, packaged by someone else than an RFP (Request for Packaging (by others)) bug is technically correct, but just asking here has the same effect :) - If you want to package it yourself and maintain it in the future, you should file an ITP bug (Intent to Package) and we can add you to the team on salsa, where you can push a repo with the source package, which one of us will review and eventually upload. > I'm familiar with Perl, C and packaging and could work on packages with bugs > or maybe lintian. More collaborators on bugs in all our packages are always welcome! Cheers, gregor [0] Some examples: libastro-fits-cfitsio-perl/debian/patches/no-alien-cfitsio.patch libhtml-gumbo-perl/debian/patches/no-alien-libgumbo.patch libio-compress-brotli-perl/debian/patches/system-brotli.patch libmath-gmp-perl/debian/patches/no-alien.patch libmath-gsl-perl/debian/patches/no-alien-gsl.patch libpdl-transform-proj4-perl/debian/patches/proj-no-Alien.patch libtext-hunspell-perl/debian/patches/no-alien-hunspell.patch -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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