Bug#808911: dh-make-perl: Switch from libdpkg-parse-perl to libdpkg-perl modules

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:07:06 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:37:22 +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 13:12 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:

> > > What's the advantage of this over the various modules in libdpkg-perl?
> > 
> > I think it's the only way to retrieve version information. It's a long time
> > since I wrote my original patch for dh-make-perl, but I seem to remember
> > that DPKG::Parse was the only module that provided certain information I
> > needed (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774074).
> > 
> > I certainly tried to do it with other modules already packaged, but I
> > couldn't gain all the required information.
> 
> The attached untested patch should in principle do it. In any case the
> available file is only ever up-to-date when using dselect, so this is
> probably not a very generic solution. And if it's too slow, this should
> be fixed in libdpkg-perl anyway as that would benefit every caller.

Andy, Dam, what do you think about Guillem's patch?
 

Cheers,
gregor

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