Bug#593000: dh-make-perl: shadowed newer File::Fetch vs requiredeps

[Damyan Ivanov]

retitle 593000 dh-make-perl doesn't consider locally installed packages when looking for modules
tags 593000 confirmed help
thanks

-=| Kevin Ryde, Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:12:36AM +1000 |=-
> Package: dh-make-perl
> Version: 0.70-1
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/bin/dh-make-perl
> 
> I built File::Fetch 0.24 (with dh-make-perl) and installed it as a newer
> version than in perl 5.10.1.  Then doing dh-make-perl --requiredeps on
> Alien::SDL complained that File::Fetch 0.24 was not available.
> 
> The Contents.cache created ended up with "perl-modules".  As usual this
> is with my own apt-file-from-installed, so it's possible it's my own
> doing, but the apt-file bit has both libfile-fetch-perl and perl-modules
> entries for File/Fetch.pm.  I hoped dh-make-perl might notice the former
> is a newer version than the latter and prefer that one (or prefer it if
> --requiredeps does need newer than in perl itself, etc).
> 
> I suspect Alien::SDL is not really suitable for dh-make-perl to build,
> so it may not be a good example, but it seems like a general problem.

The general problem is that dh-make-perl doesn't consider the locally 
installed packages when seeking to satisfy dependencies. If your 
package is not known to APT, dh-make-perl doesn't see it.
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