On Mar 07, darren chamberlain wrote:
> 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.
Just to be clear, one of the most use features of a .dpkg
is the _versioned_ dependencies. You can't build them
automatically. If you leave them out of make them up, then
what you've got is no better than `make tardist'. Which is
pretty good.
- Kurt
