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?
What I always do, which may or may not be the best way, is go to http://packages.debian.org, then search for the module file name in "Search the Contents of Packages" (make sure "packages that contain files named like this" is checked). For example, in your case, I'd be looking for "DBD/XBase.pm".
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