Bug#83977: PROPOSED] include Perl Policy

[Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>]

Update to include information about dh_perl.  Current version is at

  http://people.debian.org/~bod/perl-policy/perl-policy.sgml

--- perl-policy.sgml.orig	Tue Feb 13 18:17:18 2001
+++ perl-policy.sgml	Tue Feb 13 20:10:06 2001
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 	<name>Brendan O'Dea</name>
 	<email>bod@debian.org</email>
       </author>
-      <version>version 1.14</version>
+      <version>version 1.15</version>
 
       <abstract>
 	This document describes the packaging of Perl within the Debian
@@ -313,6 +313,23 @@
 	    of the <package/perl/ package used to build the module, and
 	    must additionally depend on the expansion of
 	    <package/perlapi-$Config{version}/.
+	  </p>
+	</sect1>
+
+	<sect1 id="dh_perl">
+	  <heading>Automating Perl Dependencies</heading>
+	  <p>
+	    Rather than hard-coding the dependencies into the control
+	    file, using a substitution such as <tt/${perl:Depends}/ is
+	    suggested.  This allows the dependencies to be determined
+	    as build time and written to the <file/substvars/ file in
+	    the form <tt/perl:Depends=<var/deps//.
+	  </p>
+	  <p>
+	    Packages built with <prgn/debhelper/ may use <manref
+	    name="dh_perl" section=1> to generate this substitution
+	    automatically.  Requires a <tt/Build-Depends/ on
+	    <tt/debhelper (>= 3.0.5)/.
 	  </p>
 	</sect1>
       </sect>

Regards,
-- 
Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited                  (NSW, Australia)  +61 2 9810 3633