Bug#774074: dh-make-perl: Recursive option does not check version of existing packages

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Andrew Beverley, 25.05.2015 09:48:41 +0100 |=-
> On Sat, 2015-05-23 at 16:18 +0000, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > I like the patch, though it needs DPKG::Parse::Available in Debian 
> > before it could be applied as is. Maybe make that part conditional on 
> > DPKG::Parse::Available being present?
> 
> That's fine. Is the correct way to do this by doing a "require", and
> removing the "use"?

I think so. Something like

 if ( eval { require DPKG::Parse::Available } ) {
  ...
 }
 else {
    # perhaps some word of warning?
 }

would allow for the patch to be included in dh-make-perl for the 
benefit of those installing DPKG::Parse::Available from CPAN.
(Oh, and adding DPKG::Parse::Available to META's recommended list 
would be nice)

> >  Do you plan to package that in Debian?
> 
> Yes, that's fine, I can do that, I just need to spend a bit of time
> reading up on how to package correctly. I'll update this ticket once
> I've done that.

Cool! Then I guess we can make DPKG::Parse::Available a hard 
dependency and give everyone a better experience.

-- dam