Bug#664150: dh-make-perl: Fails to parse "perl_5" in META.json as a license

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Fri Mar 16 19:50:45 UTC 2012


On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:01:28 +0100, Per Carlson wrote:

> > Seems like it stumbles over the array;

> >        if (   $self->meta->{license} and $self->meta->{license} ~~ /perl/i
> > works in this case (lib/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm, line 1065).

> It stumbles on other licenses as well. 

Right, so far it checked $self->meta->{license} only for perl.

> According to CPAN::Meta:Spec
> the licenses attribute is always an array, and might contain more than
> one license:

Ah, great. Seems we were not really up to date :)
 
> I've attached a patch to treat $self->meta->{license} as an ARRAY and
> loop over it. While on it, I did also add support for some other
> licenses as well (beyond 'perl').

Cool, thanks alot!

I've applied your patch in git, it will be in the next upload.


Cheers,
gregor
 
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