Quoting Kurt D. Starsinic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Mar 07, 2002 10:28]:
> On Mar 07, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > Which reminds me. Is anyone working on a CPAN debian package
> > archive?
> >
> > I remember Schwern making a joke about it after Ingy's plea
> > for PPM help at YAPC last year. Did anything ever eventuate?
> >
> > At the moment, many packages are being built by the debian
> > project, but it's far from ideal as they tend to be a version
> > or two behind, and only covering a very small proportion of
> > CPAN.
>
> IMHO, it's better than what we would do, because Debian
> packages have extensive regression testing on version
> interdependencies. I think it would be a bad idea for us to
> make .dpkg's that don't have that kind of interdependency QC.
I'd like to see make target that can make RPMs and debs if the
appropriate files are present, i.e, a SPEC file for an RPM (dunno
what for a deb). That way, the packaged version would exist, but
when (if) it was integrated into debian would still be a matter
of when it was deemed Tested Enough.
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