Bug#705068: Please provide dh-make library for non-perl packaging helpers

[Thomas Koch]

Some clarifications:

There is for example a lot of logic in the package 
DhMakePerl::Command::Packaging that I'd like to reuse for java packaging. For 
that I'd need a reliable API and some logic would need to extracted from 
larger functions into separate functions:

* get_developer(), get_wnpp() are fine for reuse
* fill_maintainer() has hardcoded reference to perl team
* set_package_name() contains logic to fall back to create a perl library 
package name
* extract_desc() contains useful logic to format the long package description
* ...

I think it's fine to keep all this logic in the dh-make-perl package. It would 
just be helpful to have a clear distinction between reusable code that could 
be used for languages other than perl and code specific for packaging perl.

I'm just starting to learn perl, so it'll take some time until I can help with 
this.

Regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro