Bug#517227: dh-make-perl cannot find dependancy using

[Damyan Ivanov]

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-=| gregor herrmann, Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:05:15PM +0100 |=-
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:11:27 +0300, Ilya Martynov wrote:
> 
> > I tried to build POE::Component::SSLify from CPAN and noticed that
> > dh-make-perl cannot find all dependancies for the module using
> > apt-file:
> > 
> > ilya at denmark:~/tmp/POE-Component-SSLify-0.15$ dh-make-perl
> > Found: POE-Component-SSLify 0.15 (libpoe-component-sslify-perl arch=all)
> > + perl found in perl
> > - Net::SSLeay not found in any package
> 
> I can't reproduce this problem:
> 
> 
> gregoa at belanna:/tmp/perl/POE-Component-SSLify-0.15$ dh-make-perl
> Found: POE-Component-SSLify 0.15 (libpoe-component-sslify-perl arch=all)
> Parsing /var/cache/apt/apt-file/ftp.at.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_Contents-i386.gz ...
> [..]
> + perl found in perl
> + Net::SSLeay found in libnet-ssleay-perl
> 
> Needs the following debian packages: libnet-ssleay-perl (>= 1.30)
> 
> [..]
> 
> 
> (And if I ran it a second time the "Parsing /var/cache/..." is
> missing as expected but the result is the same.)
> 
> Could you try to "rm ~/.dh-make-perl/Contents.cache" and run
> dh-make-perl again? Maybe there is some problem with the cache ...

I think I have found the root reason. Hopefuly it is not 
cache-related.

By default dh-make-perl parses only Contents files the distribution 
part of whose names is either 'sid' or 'unstable'. So on a pure stable 
(or testing) system, AptContents has nothing to parse and should fail 
to detect *any* dependency package.

I am not very sure why I filtered on distribution at all. Perhaps to 
avoid false positives when using unofficial repositories, or to save 
time parsing. OTOH, if these repositories are in sources.list, the  
admin relies on them so...

I think I shall remove the filtering and see what happens.

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