Bug#478781: dh-make-perl: suggest look for deps with dpkg -S too

Kevin Ryde user42 at zip.com.au
Wed Apr 30 23:22:20 UTC 2008


Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.42
Severity: wishlist

It be nice if dh-make-perl would look at currently installed packages
when making the control file "Depends:", as well as what apt-file
reports.  I think that'd help establish depends on privately installed
packages, like other dh-make-perl packages.  I believe apt-file doesn't
report about those.  I get some joy from simply adding dpkg into

	@search = `apt-file search $module.pm; dpkg -S $module.pm`;

but I guess the logic would be better chopped around so dpkg is tried
even if apt-file isn't installed.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                     7.0.2      helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.18    package building tools for Debian
ii  fakeroot                      1.9.5      Gives a fake root environment
ii  libmodule-depends-perl        0.10-1.1   identify the dependencies of a dis
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl         1.34-2     Automate interaction with websites
ii  libyaml-perl                  0.62-1.1   YAML Ain't Markup Language (tm)
ii  make                          3.81-4     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  perl                          5.8.8-12   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libpod-parser-p 5.8.8-12   Core Perl modules

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file                     2.1.1       APT package searching utility -- c
ii  libmodule-build-perl         0.2808.01-2 Subclassable and make-independent 

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