Bug#608936: dh-make-perl: not to create ${PACKAGE}.docs for autocreated README

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Thu Jul 21 19:30:30 UTC 2011


-=| Nicholas Bamber, Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:27:12PM +0000 |=-
>   Actually you are proposing my first idea but I thought the
> create_readme parameter was more elegant. May be that is a Build.PL
> bias.
> 
>  for determining the main file,    Makefile.PL has a  VERSION_FROM
> parameter.
> Build.PL has a dist_version_from parameter. And obviously if you
> cannot determine a main file you would
> revert to current behaviour.

Aha, version_from, hm. Parsing that could be tricki on its own. Maybe 
catching 'create_readme' would be good enough. However, there is an 
unanswered question:

  Is it possible to have a non-autogenerated README *with* that 
  option?





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