[Wylug-help] .deb equivs

[Towle, William]

>= Aaron, and >>= Smylers:
> > > Is that the exact spelling of the dependency that your 
> .deb specifies?
> > 
> > Yes.  I've previously used it on older Ubuntu systems which 
> have Perl
> > 5.8; it comes from here:
> > 
> >   
> http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/debian/main/pool/cpan-lib/c/cpan-l
ibcpanplus-perl/
> 
> Ah.  That's particularly annoying; that's the expected name for this
> package.

  There's a suggestion both spellings are supported, as least for
stock Debian, here: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/allpackages


> > I was trying to install CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb, so as to be able to
> > build .deb packages of Cpan modules.  Since CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb is
> > itself a Cpan module, I was hoping that a pre-packaged version of
> > that module would solve the obvious bootstrap issue.
> 
> Fortunately, that bootstrapping issue is easy to solve -- look into
> dh-make-perl.  You may even be able to do something as simple as
> 
>   dh-make-perl --install --cpan CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb
> 
> It's also possible that dh-make-perl will meet all your needs, so
> that you can avoid CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb entirely.

  ...I also found a primer for that if you can't:
http://rassie.org/archives/tag/cpan2dist


(Speculatively; I've not played with perl on my Ubuntu or Debian
setups that much ... yet?)
  W.