packaging large perl applications and their dependancies for debian

[Simon Wilcox]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Aaron Trevena wrote:

> dh-make-perl simply doesn't cut it, and I don't think I can solve the
> problem as easily as I hoped via the cpan deb repo/gateway.

I had the same problem ages ago but didn't really solve it at the time.

> Anybody else come accross and/or solved this problem?

Does this help (not tried it myself) ?

http://search.cpan.org/~kane/CPANPLUS-Dist-Deb-0.05/lib/CPANPLUS/Dist/Deb.pm

Simon.

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