Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.20
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Some modules get descriptions with linefeeds in them - this fools
dh-make-perl into making invalid debian/control-files (the Description
field is not indented correctly).
Please consider applying the attached patch or some other remedy.
Thanks!
An example is UNIVERSAL::isa:
== =
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/perl-modules$ dh-make-perl --build --cpan
UNIVERSAL::isa
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /home/asjo/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 03:13:48 GMT
CPAN: Digest::MD5 loaded ok
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for
/home/asjo/.cpan/source/authors/id/N/NU/NUFFIN/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /home/asjo/.cpan/build for sizes
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/Build.PL
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/lib/
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/lib/UNIVERSAL/
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/lib/UNIVERSAL/isa.pm
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/Makefile.PL
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/MANIFEST
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/META.yml
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/SIGNATURE
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/t/
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/t/basic.t
UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/t/bugs.t
Found: UNIVERSAL-isa 0.05 (libuniversal-isa-perl arch=all)
Package does not provide a long description - Please fill it in manually.
Using maintainer: Adam Sjøgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Found docs: t/bugs.t
Using rules: /usr/share/dh-make-perl/rules.Module-Build.noxs
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/perl-modules/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05'
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
# Add commands to clean up after the build process here
[ ! -f Build ] || /usr/bin/perl Build distclean
dh_clean build-stamp install-stamp
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/perl-modules/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05'
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/perl-modules/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05'
dh_testdir
# Add commands to compile the package here
/usr/bin/perl Build.PL installdirs=vendor
Checking whether your kit is complete...
Looks good
Creating new 'Build' script for 'UNIVERSAL-isa' version '0.05'
OPTIMIZE="-Wall -O2 -g" /usr/bin/perl Build
lib/UNIVERSAL/isa.pm -> blib/lib/UNIVERSAL/isa.pm
Manifying blib/lib/UNIVERSAL/isa.pm -> blib/libdoc/UNIVERSAL::isa.3pm
touch build-stamp
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k
# Add commands to install the package into debian/ACKAGE_NAME here
/usr/bin/perl Build test
t/basic....ok
t/bugs.....ok
All tests successful.
Files=2, Tests=19, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.13 cusr + 0.02 csys = 0.15 CPU)
/usr/bin/perl Build install
destdir=/usr/src/perl-modules/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/debian/libuniversal-isa-perl
Installing
/usr/src/perl-modules/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/debian/libuniversal-isa-perl/usr/share/perl5/UNIVERSAL/isa.pm
Installing
/usr/src/perl-modules/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/debian/libuniversal-isa-perl/usr/share/man/man3/UNIVERSAL::isa.3pm
touch install-stamp
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_installdocs t/bugs.t
dh_installchangelogs
dh_perl
dh_link
dh_strip
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in control file debian/control at line 13:
line with unknown format (not field-colon-value)
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 2304
make: *** [binary-indep] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/perl-modules/UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05'
Cannot create deb package
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/perl-modules$ cat UNIVERSAL-isa-0.05/debian/control
Source: libuniversal-isa-perl
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.2), libmodule-build-perl
Build-Depends-Indep: perl (>= 5.8.0-7)
Maintainer: Adam Sjøgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Standards-Version: 3.6.1
Package: libuniversal-isa-perl
Architecture: all
Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends},
Description: Hack around stupid module authors using UNIVERSAL::isa as a
function when they shouldn't.
Whenever you use UNIVERSAL/isa as a function, a kitten using
Test::MockObject dies. Normally, the kittens would be helpless, but if they
use UNIVERSAL::isa (the module whose docs you are reading), the kittens can
live long and prosper.
.
This module replaces UNIVERSAL::isa with a version that makes sure that if
it's called as a function on objects which override isa, isa will be
called on those objects as a method.
.
In all other cases the real UNIVERSAL::isa is just called directly.
.
This description was automagically extracted from the module by dh-make-perl.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/perl-modules$
== =
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-asjo-p4
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=da_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii debhelper 5.0.22 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.13 package building tools for Debian
ii fakeroot 1.5.6 Gives a fake root environment
ii libmodule-depends-perl 0.10-1 identify the dependencies of a dis
ii libyaml-perl 0.39-1 YAML Ain't Markup Language (tm)
ii make 3.80+3.81.b4-1 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii perl 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules [libpod-pars 5.8.7-10 Core Perl modules
Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
pn apt-file <none> (no description available)
ii libmodule-build-perl 0.26-1 Subclassable and make-independant
-- no debconf information
--- dh-make-perl.orig 2006-01-31 13:45:23.133438005 +0100
+++ dh-make-perl 2006-01-31 13:46:04.413068655 +0100
@@ -506,6 +506,8 @@
$my_desc =~ s/\n.*$//s;
$desc = $my_desc;
}
+ # Replace linefeeds (not followed by a space) in $desc with spaces:
+ $desc=~s/\n\S/ /gs;
unless ($longdesc) {
$longdesc = $parser->get('DESCRIPTION')
