OVERVIEW

The Regexp::Common::debian is collection of REs for various strings found in the Debian Porject <http://debian.org>. It's no way intended to be a validation tool.

Right now (before first release) I can't decide what version of Perl is needed. I should admit though, I'll do my best to support perl distributed with stable release of Debian GNU/Linux (at time of writing it is v5.8.8). And I'll try hard to support perl in oldstable (v5.8.4).

INSTALL

The R::C::d is distributed with Module::Build.

    $ perl Build.PL
    $ perl Build
    $ perl Build test
    $ perl Build install

Since we're about strings we need a lots of strings to test against (Test::More, unspecified version). To access them easily (it's all about reuse, not implemented yet) I need an apropriate storage. Accidentally it's YAML::Tiny (unspecified version).

If any test string fails I need to know what and how. To provide that info I've picked Test::Differences (maybe there's other option I'm not aware of?). (Surely I could go one of fail-proof ways described in T::D pod; and what if something goes wrong? let's no play stupid hope -- I must know what happened.) That yeilds a big problem. T::D has two (actually one) open bugs -- <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=38320> and <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=41241> -- at time of writing they are still open, no maintainer responce, patch is provided. Some test strings of R::C::d give undef as predicted result. That will provide a lots of "use of undef" warnings (really, a lots of). And as a matter of fact, T::D will be somewhat useles -- forgive me, let me figure out version relations first.

AVAILABILITY

#FIXME: think http://cpan.org

#FIXME: think http://sourceforge.net

BUGS

#FIXME: think http://rt.cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING

• Copyright 2008 Eric Pozharski <whynot@cpan.org>

• AS-IS, NO-WARRANTY, HOPE-TO-BE-USEFUL

• Lesser General Public License v3 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt>