Re: Anyone wants to program some perl?

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:27:57PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> if you want to get involved with Debian and TeX Live packaging
> and programming, here is a first idea:
> [...]

> Warning:
> - the actual files should be checked

What do you mean by this?

> - if there are files that do NOT belong to this package in a directory,
>   it CANNOT be collapsed to *, but every file needs to be listed!!!
> - location of the doc files might e different, check the current TL 2011 
>   packages in Debian

Again, not sure what you mean by this?

> Hint:
> THere is already code for that in tpm2licenses in tex-common/trunk/scripts,
> you only need to extract the collapse functions and write a bit of stuff
> around it.

Just looked at the tpm2licenses code; in the BEGIN block is a line
which reads:

  if (!($mydir =~ m,/.*,,)) { ......

is the final comma before the ) extraneous?  Shouldn't it just be

  if (!($mydir =~ m,/.*,)) { 

   Julian