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Changes for version 0.85 - 2015-05-24

  • Damyan Ivanov
    • Config: fixup module name after possible setting it when run as 'cpan2deb' (Closes: #777718 -- cpan2deb using wrong module from CPAN)
  • Axel Beckert
    • Improve misleading error message if apt-file installed but no contents files could be found.
    • Fix parsing of sources.list entry with options in brackets. (Closes: #783110; Thanks Lucas Nussbaum for the bug report.)
  • Andy Beverley
    • Check existing new directory name before attempting a rename to it (Closes: #774071)
    • Reset Git environment variables to ensure correct repo is used (Closes: #774070)
    • Use correct location for deb when using install option (Closes: #774072)
  • Damyan Ivanov
    • run 'dpkg -i pkg.deb' with sudo if we aren't root
    • bump years of copyright
    • new routine, info() for printing stuff in verbose mode, with an 'I: ' prefix
    • print the dpkg -i command
    • Packaging: parse 'dist.ini' if present
    • create_copyright: use copyright year from dist.ini (copyright_year)

Documentation

Create debian source packages from Perl modules

Modules

parse/search through apt-file's Contents files
manage Debian source package control files
fill debian/control from unpacked CPAN distribution
single stanza of Debian source package control file
binary stanza of Debian source package control file
comma separated debian/control field abstraction
source stanza of Debian source package control file
a list of Debian::Dependency objects
dependency relationship between Debian packages
scan /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list for files/patterns
handy manipulation of debian/rules
handy representation of Debian WNPP bug reports
offline storage of Debian's work-needing package lists
create Debian source package from CPAN dist
common routines for 'make' and 'refresh' dh-make-perl commands
dh-make-perl dump-config implementation
dh-make-perl help implementation
dh-make-perl locate implementation
implementation of 'dh-make-perl make'
dh-make-perl refresh implementation
dh-make-perl refresh-cache implementation
dh-make-perl configuration class
internal helper module for DhMakePerl
helper routines for dh-make-perl and alike