Hello,
this is a near-copy of a mail I sent yesterday to debian-perl. I
think it is relevant to this list.
I just managed to build a working .deb from a perl program (a game
that uses gtk and gnome), after a fair amount of cruft (*).
I build it w/ the help of the "New Maintainer's Guide", the
"Packaging Manual", the devel, mentors and perl mailing lists. There
are still a few things that I don't understand, such as that below.
Would anyone be willing to send me the source tree of a debian
package that wraps a perl program/module (or send me the url for one)?
Also, I read in last February's perl archive about Joey's
CPAN::Debian and about Lupus's work in the same direction. Has anyone
used them? I downloaded CPAN::Debian, but didn't look at it yet.
Cheers,
Etienne
PS: Sample thing I don't understand :
### Lintian complains that :
W: bloksi: perl-script-needs-dependency "libgtk-perl" ./usr/games/bloksi use
Gtk
I tried the following lines in the 1st paragraph of the rules files
Depends: perl, libgtk-perl, libgnome-perl, libgtk-imlib-perl
and
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},${perl:Depends}
without results.
(*) The source tree, .deb, etc are at http://anonimo.isr.ist.utl.pt/-
~etienne/debianized_bloksi). The real cruft part is in
Makefile.PL's postamble part.
