Martin Schulze wrote: > the maintainer. Well, there's just right another, using debhelper > partially prevents the package from being compiled on other > architectures.[1] > > [1] We had this problem with binary-sparc where no new perl package > existed so all packages using debhelper couldn't be re-packaged > for the Sparc archtitecture.
Woah, woah, woah.. if perl is broken and won't build on the target arch, that is hardly debhelper's fault. Debhelper depends on a version of perl that has been available for debian (i386) since May _1997_. Also, in about 90% of packages that use debhelper, you can force an install of debhelper and the package will build ok without perl. The remaining 10% can probably be worked around by installing perl 5.003 and grabbing /usr/lib/perl/Getopt/Long.pm from perl 5.004 on an i386. If that helps you any on your porting efforts.. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
