Bug#602059: dh-make-perl --cpan confuses module and distribution

[Damyan Ivanov]

retitle 602059 --cpan documented as taking a distribution name
clone 602059 -1
severity -1 wishlist
retitle -1 --cpan hould try to download CPAN distribution if no module by given 
name is found
thanks

-=| Nicholas Bamber, Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 07:40:40AM + |=-
 Package: dh-make-perl
 Version: 0.70-1
 Severity: minor
 
 If you run dh-make-perl --closes # --pkg-perl --cpan
 Module::Starter::Plugin::SimpleStore it fails to find the module. You have to
 specify one of the component modules.

The argument to --cpan is a module name. dh-make-perl(1) says:

dh-make-perl [make] {SOURCE_DIR | --cpan MODULE} options...

… You can specify a module name with the --cpan switch and 
dh-make-perl will download the module for you from a CPAN mirror, 
or you can specify the directory with the already unpacked 
sources.

Later on it says (apparently wrongly):

 --cpan DIST
   Instructs dh-make-perl to fetch and extract the given CPAN 
   distribution.

Big retitled.

Of course, falling back to CPAN distribution if module by that name 
can't be found would be useful too. Cloning another bugreport.


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Bug#602059: dh-make-perl --cpan confuses module and distribution

[Nicholas Bamber]

Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.70-1
Severity: minor



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper 8.0.0  helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev  1.15.8.5   Debian package development tools
ii  fakeroot  1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  libapt-pkg-perl   0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libarray-unique-perl  0.08-1 Tie-able array that allows only un
ii  libclass-accessor-perl0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.15.8.5   Dpkg perl modules
ii  libemail-date-format-perl 1.002-1Module to generate RFC-2822-valid 
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl0.25~02-1  Perl module with additional list f
ii  libmodule-depends-perl0.14-3 identify the dependencies of a dis
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl  2.005-2Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2.1  parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl1.21-2 ordered associative arrays for Per
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl 1.66-1 module to automate interaction wit
ii  libyaml-perl  0.71-1 YAML Ain't Markup Language
ii  make  3.81-8 An utility for Directing compilati
ii  perl  5.10.1-15  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-corel 5.10.1-15  Core Perl modules

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file  2.4.0  search for files within Debian pac

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

If you run dh-make-perl --closes # --pkg-perl --cpan
Module::Starter::Plugin::SimpleStore it fails to find the module. You have to
specify one of the component modules.



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