On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 01:46:11AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> Is it correct to assume that any given debian package whose name is of
> the form lib.*-perl corresponds to one and only one CPAN module,
Not quite, but more or less.
> and that the algorithm for determining the corresponding debian
> package name from a given CPAN module name is this? ...
>
> - Add a leading "lib" and a trailing "-perl" to the CPAN module name.
>
> - Replace all occurrences of double colon ('::') with a hyphen ('-').
>
> - Convert to lower case.
That's pretty much it, yes, and it works 99% of the time. However, for
one reason or another it might not always be absolutely reliable:
occasionally packages have been aggregated or split, or are using an
older naming scheme, or whatever.
If I wanted something absolutely reliable, I would apply s,::,/,g
instead and use either 'auto-apt search -f' or 'apt-file search'. (Both
require an update step as root every so often.)
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