dh-make-perl 0.50

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:00:50 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> What is missing is a way to install the packahe without running 
> dh-make-perl as root. Something like
> 
>     dh-make-perl -rsudo --build     # build normally, install via sudo

Or installing afterwards manually (maybe it's just me, but I don't
like auto-install stuff in general).
 
> > /usr/local/src/cpan/WWW-Mechanize-Plugin-FollowMetaRedirect-0.01%  
> > dh-make-perl --build
> > Found: WWW-Mechanize-Plugin-FollowMetaRedirect 0.01  
> > (libwww-mechanize-plugin-followmetaredirect-perl arch=all)
> > The directory ./debian is already present and I won't overwrite it:  
> > remove it yourself.
> >
> > Shouldn't there be a command to build the .deb using an existing  
> > ./debian? (Sure, there are the usual Debian packaging commands, but why  
> > not have dh-make-perl do the expected thing?)
> 
> From the manual page:
> 
>        --build
>                   Builds the package after setting it up.
> So --build first tries to create debian/ which fails because debian/ 
> already exists.

We could think about skipping the check for an existing debian/ dir
for --build.
(But again, this is an option I never use.)
 
Cheers,
gregor
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