Re: Most maintainable way to install perl modules on Debian sysetms

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Michael Grant wrote: 
> > cpan2deb takes a CPAN module and builds it as a Debian package.
> > Use a common suffix like -mgrant and you can spot these in
> > package listings.
> > 
> > When you upgrade, build new versions of all the -mgrant
> > packages.
> 
> Thanks.  So in one way this makes it easier to remove the module which
> cpan doesn't do, but I'd still have to track the module manually and
> run this again and again, remembering or scripting something to do all
> of this automatically.
> 
> Has anyone built something which when you ran apt upgrade, it would
> look at each of these packages that were made by cpan2deb, then look
> in cpan to see if the module was updated, then create a new deb and
> upgrade the package?
> 
> That would really automate the whole process like apt upgrade.

Well, that would do the job thoughtlessly. It might backfire
spectacularly.

If one set up a service in that way, it would eventually get a
terrible reputation.

If, on the other hand, one spent the time to maintain those
packages properly... you could be a Debian Maintainer, and get
them into the primary repos.

The third course, that doesn't commit you to doing that work and 
doesn't expose you to that risk, is more or less as I've already
outlined. 

-dsr-