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Re: dh_perl



Steve Kemp wrote:
>   Mapping from a perl module to a Debian package should be trivial,
>  I would have thought.
> 
>   Given the system upon which dh_perl would be run would have the
>  modules installed it should be a simple matter of running
>  'dpkg --search path/to/perl/module.pm' - or am I missing something
>  obvious?

The module package may not even be installed, the module may be used
conditionally, a versioned dependency may be needed, multiple packages
may provide the same module (and a dependency on a virtual package or an
ored dependency needed), and so on.

-- 
see shy jo

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