Package: dh-make-perl Version: 0.49 Severity: wishlist Currently, dh-make-perl calls 'apt-file search' for each detected dependency of the module. This makes it very slow, as apt-file parses all the Contents files over and over for each invocation.
Instead, dh-make-perl could parse Contents* files already retrieved by
apt-file (in /var/cache/apt-file) *once* and then search in them
multiple times blazingly fast. A sample code for the parser is
available in lookup-requirements[1] under scripts/ in pkg-perl SVN
repository. It uses user-local cache to speed-up parsing. Perhaps
something similar can be used by dh-make-perl too (but perhaps put the
cache somewhere in ~/.dh-make-perl).
[1]
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/lookup-requirements?view=markup
Alternatively, dh-make-perl could use apt-xapian-index if available
(HOWTO needed).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii debhelper 7.0.17 helper programs for debian/rules
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools
ii fakeroot 1.10.1 Gives a fake root environment
ii libemail-date-format-perl 1.002-1 Module to generate RFC-2822-valid
ii libmodule-depends-perl 0.14-1 identify the dependencies of a dis
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 1.34-2 Automate interaction with websites
ii libyaml-perl 0.66-1 YAML Ain't Markup Language (tm)
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii perl 5.10.0-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules [libpod-parser-p 5.10.0-17 Core Perl modules
Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii apt-file 2.1.6 APT package searching utility -- c
ii libmodule-build-perl 0.3000-1 Subclassable and make-independent
ii perl-modules [libmodule-build 5.10.0-17 Core Perl modules
dh-make-perl suggests no packages.
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