Thorsten Glaser <t...@debian.org> writes: > My co-developer (on the MirBSD side) benz has written a script that > almost automates creation of a port (source package) from/for a CPAN: > http://www.slideshare.net/bsiegert/painless-perl-ports-with-cpan2port > (It looks even MacPorts has adopted it!)
> Of course, it needs some manual review (and someone’d have to convert > its output to Debian source packages, or merge it into the already > existing dh-make-perl which also somewhat worked when I tried it), but > it would make achieving this goal possible (and let running dpkg require > 128 MiB of RAM or so, to fit the list of packages into it, I guess, but > even those Amigas have that). Do you think there's something substantial missing from the existing Debian packaging of Perl modules? I'm quite happy with what Debian is doing already and am somewhat dubious there is any point in changing anything. Most of what's available in CPAN that isn't already packaged is either new or quite obscure, and much of what's available but obscure probably *shouldn't* be packaged: it's buggy, abandoned, an inferior version of something that's already packaged, or otherwise just not of general interest. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87fw1iz79o....@windlord.stanford.edu
