Joey Hess wrote: > With the recent MakeMaker hackery in the new perl, it seems it should be > quite easy to make a program that, given a module name, downloads it > from cpan and automagically makes it into a deb. > > I'll probably take a look at doing this in the near future.
I've reluctantly decided that the proper way to do it is as an extention to the CPAN module itself. Either a CPAN::Debian, or bolted right into it, I dunno. I'm fiddling with CPAN.pm now -- such blecherous code.. -- see shy jo

