Packing new CPAN modules and upgrading existing ones

[Joel Roth]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:55:56AM -0400, Keith Lawson wrote:
>   
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I'd like to work on building some new module packages and
> closing some of the "Newer upstream release" bugs and just have a couple
> of questions. For new packages (CPAN modules that don't currently exist)
> should I build them to work in unstable first or just build the stable
> version? 
> 
> For new CPAN releases would the process be to build brand new
> packages from the latest CPAN source for stable, testing and unstable?

Hi Keith,

Welcome! Sounds like you're new to Debian packaging.

Others will take care of joining you to the Debian Perl
group, if you ask nice.

AIUI, the way it generally works is that Debianized CPAN
distributions get released to 'unstable' then
automatically get migrated down to 'testing' and stable.

Occasionally stuff gets released to 'experimental', but
TBH, I haven't seen (or know) much of that.

When a package is ready for review, I usually issue
"dch -r", which sets the release target in debian/changelog to 'unstable'.

If the uploading authority finds it builds okay, they
will release it.

Some useful links:

Debian Perl Group 

http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/

Package status page:

http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/pet.cgi

Also, a lot of work gets done via IRC, #debian-perl
at irc.debian.org.

Have fun,

Joel


> Thanks, 
> 
> Keith. 



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Joel Roth