Re: [ANNOUNCE] automatic perl module building from CPAN

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Paolo Molaro wrote:
> Been there, done that. A few months ago. We even discussed it on debian-perl.

Hm, I wonder how I missed it. 

I do sorta prefer the way my method integrates with CPAN shell, but no
matter, CPAN is an ugly dog anyway.

A things you may want to incorporate:

* There is no need to include your own code to extract version info from
  the makefile. CPAN can already do this. Get a CPAN::Module object and
  calls its cpan_version method.
* Similarly for name, just use $module->id
* If you have a CPAN::Module, $module->{description} will occasionally
  contain a useful description. But that's a nice job parsing the
  pod docs doe the long description!
* I personally think it's a nice touch to drop the built deb in the
  directory the command was run in. Much more convenient that way,
  rather that having to dig around in .cpan/build. Just call dh_builddeb so:

  DESTDIR=..
  	dh_builddeb --destdir=\$(DESTDIR)

  Then override DESTDIR to set it to the pwd (which must be saved;
  CPAN.pm will change it).

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