On 06/29/01 Etienne Grossmann wrote: > 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)?
apt-get source lib*-perl should do it. > 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. Use dh-make-perl (available in testing and unstable). > ### Lintian complains that : > > W: bloksi: perl-script-needs-dependency "libgtk-perl" ./usr/games/bloksi > use Gtk lintian gets the perl modules wrong most of the time. > 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. ${shlibs:Depends} will probably be empty because there is no binary inside the package. ${perl:Depends} 'requires' that you use debhelper and dh_perl in debian/rules. lupus -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] debian/rules [EMAIL PROTECTED] Monkeys do it better