Bug#670188: dh-make-perl: incorrect creation of package version

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.75-1
Severity: normal

  Hi,

  I tried to debianize the PDL-Stats Perl module. dh-make-perl correctly gets
PDL-Stats 0.6.0 from cpan. But then, it try to use version 0.6. (note the
missing 0) that fails because upstream/0.6. is not a valid tag for git...
  Using --version does not fix anything. Looking at the code, it seems that
--version is used only when the version cannot be autodetected (another bug?)

  But, looking into /usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm,
I found at line 304:
$ver =~ s/\.0+/./g;                 # 2.003.004 -> 2.3.4
I changed it to:
$ver =~ s/\.0+(.)/.$1/g;            # 2.003.004 -> 2.3.4 but 0.6.0 -> 0.6.0
so that the last 0 is kept in my case.
But I not sure this is the real fix (2.000.000 will be changed into 2..0)
Perhaps something (not tested) as:
$ver =~ s/\.0+([0-9]|\$)/.$1/g;

  In any case, if this is too difficult to fix all version number, then
--version should be used when provided.

  Regards,
    Vincent

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.3.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                               9.20120419
ii  dpkg-dev                                1.16.3+0~1333384407.7~1.gbp45fe25
ii  fakeroot                                1.18.2-1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                         0.1.26+b1
ii  libarray-unique-perl                    0.08-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl                  0.34-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                            1.16.3+0~1333384407.7~1.gbp45fe25
ii  libemail-address-perl                   1.895-1
ii  libemail-date-format-perl               1.002-1
ii  libfile-which-perl                      1.09-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl                  0.33-1+b1
ii  libmodule-corelist-perl                 2.65-1
ii  libmodule-depends-perl                  0.15-2
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl                2.005-3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl           1.2.0-1
ii  libsoftware-license-perl                0.103004-2
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl                      1.21-2
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl                   1.71-1
ii  libyaml-perl                            0.80-1
ii  make                                    3.81-8.2
ii  perl                                    5.14.2-9
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-corelist-perl]  5.14.2-9

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file      2.5.0
ii  git           1:1.7.10-1
ii  pristine-tar  1.24

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

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