Re: Is some real Depends from libnet-telnet-perl needed in libasterisk-agi-perl?
On Thu, 15 May 2025 13:15:42 +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> > > Any reason why this Depends is not automatically detected?
> > I'm pretty sure that dh-make-perl would find / would have found it …
> It would be nice if dh_perl would add the dependencies from the
> META files to the appropriate substvars like dh_python3 does for
> Python packages.
Hm …
> That automatically adds runtime dependencies when upstream adds
> those their package metadata, for Perl packages I always have to
> remember to update dependencies manually when the upstream diff
> shows dependency changes in the META files.
Well, first of all, the mapping between CPAN distribution names (and
versions) and Debian package names (and versions) is surprisingly
difficult. Also, you'd have to add them to Build-Depends{,-Indep]
manually anyway in all but very unusual cases.
Cheers,
gregor
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