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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| gregor herrmann, Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:55:17PM +0100 |=-
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:15:47 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, good catch.
>  
> > 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 remember the reason: you added the filtering after I complained
> that creating the cache takes ages because my sources.list is so long
> :)

Caching shall help here. stable does not change that much. testing 
does though...

Another help is the --refresh-cache command which can be used to 
update dh-make-perl caches after firing apt-file update in some cron 
job...

> > I think I shall remove the filtering and see what happens.
> 
> Hm, maybe some fallback or option or ...? 

There is an option.

Ilya, can you try adding "--dist stable" to the command line and see 
if it makes a difference?

Fallback would complicate things. "Unable to find any Contents files 
matching {sid,unstable}. Trying with {stable,testing}...".

In any case, the information about chosen Contents distributions shall 
be made more visible (somehow).

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