On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 22:04:08 +1100, Kevin Ryde wrote: > It'd be good if the dh-make-perl man page summarised how it turns perl > module depends into deb package depends. The details of this have > changed over time, but something short on what it looks for (and caches) > would be good.
Thanks for your bug report. > I struck trouble recently with dh-make-perl reporting I only had an old > deb version available, despite new enough installed and in apt. It took > a while for me to guess it was reading /var/lib/dpkg/available, which > for me was long out of date due to using apt not dselect I suppose. > That file could be listed in the "FILES" section. I think we actually have two issues here: 1) missing documentation for how dh-make-perl does the mapping of CPAN distributions to Debian packages (which is primarily with apt-file but also with DPKG::Parse::Available) 2) DPKG::Parse::Available reading the /var/lib/dpkg/available file which doesn't get updated anymore (?). I'm wondering if using DPKG::Parse::Status which reads /var/lib/dpkg/status would make sense. This then only returns installed packages in my understanding but maybe that was the idea of this change? [0] Cc'ing Andy as the author of this functionality. Cheers, gregor [0] 51f689679cc59e21650b18b907fe6929f4328952 https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/dh-make-perl.git/commit/?id=51f689679cc59e21650b18b907fe6929f4328952 -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Dave Brubeck: Blue Rondo A La Turk
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