Bug#506071: Replace 'This module' with the real module name in long description

Damyan Ivanov dam at modsoftsys.com
Tue Nov 18 06:37:57 UTC 2008


Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.49
Severity: wishlist

Far too often the long description that is extracted from the POD starts
like this:

 This module does this and that in a very nice way.

Compare this with:

 Foo::Bar does this and that in a very nice way.

The later would allow searching for the package with

 apt-cache search Foo::Bar

If dh-make-perl can offer some aid for easying searching in the obvious
cases, that would be nice.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                     7.0.17     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.14.22    Debian package development tools
ii  fakeroot                      1.10.1     Gives a fake root environment
ii  libemail-date-format-perl     1.002-1    Module to generate RFC-2822-valid 
ii  libmodule-depends-perl        0.14-1     identify the dependencies of a dis
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl         1.34-2     Automate interaction with websites
ii  libyaml-perl                  0.66-1     YAML Ain't Markup Language (tm)
ii  make                          3.81-5     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  perl                          5.10.0-17  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libpod-parser-p 5.10.0-17  Core Perl modules

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file                      2.1.6      APT package searching utility -- c
ii  libmodule-build-perl          0.3000-1   Subclassable and make-independent 
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-build 5.10.0-17  Core Perl modules

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

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