Hi, I'm still fairly new to Debian and am trying to find my way around the system. I've got some gripes about the naming practice and poor documentation of Perl modules. As an example, I started out today to find a package which I have used a lot on my W2K system, named DBD::XBase. It's an excellent interface to DBase-style files, including FoxPro.
After some heavy googling, I finally located the libxbase-perl package on http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/libxbase-perl.html and suspected, mostly because of the source code name, that this indeed was my trusty old friend. A successful apt-get install libxbase-perl finally confirmed my suspicions. However, I wonder if there is any correspondence between a package name such as it appears on say, CPAN, and the Debian package names? Shouldn't the original module name be referred to on the package page? Secondly, what is the easiest way to obtain documentation on any package residing on packages.debian.org? The abovementioned url was certainly not very helpful with a link to the plain old documentation. In this example, just a link to http://search.cpan.org/author/JANPAZ/DBD-XBase-0.234/lib/XBase.pm would have gone a long way. Ideally, any documentation following the original package should be directly accessible from packages.debian.org. regards, -- Leif Biberg Kristensen http://solumslekt.org/ mail to leif at solumslekt dot org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
