Bug#501688: Getting dh-make-perl to use META.yml

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:42:25 +1100, Paul Fenwick wrote:

> Quick policy check for me: Should I be replying just to the bug, or to
> everyone, including the bug?  At the moment I'm assuming the former, with
> apologies to Gunnar, who's receiving this message twice. ;)

In this case replying to the bug should be enough; mails are
forwarded to the maintainer of the bug's package which for
dh-make-perl is a mailing list which all involved people are reading
anyway.
 
> > Of course, a sensible behaviour would be to parse META if it is
> > available (for dependencies), and only use M::D::I if it is not - or
> > if specified via a command-line switch or so.
> Looks like we're in agreement here!

Ack.

(BTW: the command line switch --nometa already exists and is used for
other extraction stuff.)
 
> > svn {co,export} svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-perl/trunk/dh-make-perl/
> Thanks, I've got the code and am looking through it now.  

Great!

> Are general
> "tidy-up" patches appreciated, or should I restrict changes to those
> relating this specific bugs (like this one)?  In any case, changes for
> tidy-up and bug-fixes will be sent in separate patches from me.

As dh-make-perl is a bit of a mess I think we're happy about all
proposed improvals.
 
> What's the minimum version of Perl I can assume for changes to dh-make-perl?
>  (Currently it looks like it requires at least Perl 5.6).

IIRC 5.6-something comes from the Debian Perl Policy [0], in pratice
even sarge had already 5.8.4-8sarge6 (and etch, which will be
"oldstable" after lenny is released, has 5.8.8-7etch3).

Thanks for your offer to help us with dh-make-perl!

Cheers,
gregor

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