Re: Creating Debian dependencies while using CPAN?

[Jonas Liljegren]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Christian Hammers wrote:

> [automatically creating package files from CPAN modules on the fly]

> On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 10:40:04AM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 
> > Why not use the PREREQ_PM hash that is (or supposed to be) maintained
> > in the Makefile.PL by perl module authors to tell CPAN what are the
> > modules dependancies?
>
> *Are* they really maintained by the upstream authors or just a 
> "can be used but all are too lazy"? 

Most modules declare their dependencies. Any failure to do so should be
reported to the module auther as a bug.

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