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Changes for version 0.71 - 2010-12-28

  • Ansgar Burchardt
    • DhMakePerl::Command::Packaging: Refer to "Debian systems" instead of "Debian GNU/Linux systems" in generated debian/copyright.
  • Salvatore Bonaccorso
    • Improve regular expression to not match fields in Makefile.PL as MIN_PERL_VERSION to determine the version of the package. Thanks to Andrew Ruthven for reporting. Debian bug #596025
    • Update my email address.
  • gregor herrmann
    • Debian::Control::FromCPAN: also check test_requires and build_requires for finding build dependencies Debian bug #601787
  • Peter Pentchev
    • My::Builder: fix a typo (raname -> rename).
    • t/AptContents.t: fix a typo (fund -> found).
  • Damyan Ivanov
    • when looking for XS code, skip win32/ directories
    • Skip non-existing APT source files Debian bug #557961
    • Detect usage of 'Artistic License 2.0' and include the license text in debian/copyright; require Software::License (Closes: #589816)
    • Clarify documentation about --cpan argument being module name Debian bug #602059
    • Support distribution names as arguments to --cpan Debian bug #607998
    • Fix tests to stringify when comparing overloaded objects with strings
    • Control::Stanza: split dependency lists one package per line in order to make changes more VCS-friendly

Documentation

Create debian source packages from Perl modules

Modules

parse/search through apt-file's Contents files
manage Debian source package control files
fill debian/control from unpacked CPAN distribution
single stanza of Debian source package control file
binary stanza of Debian source package control file
comma separated debian/control field abstraction
source stanza of Debian source package control file
a list of Debian::Dependency objects
dependency relationship between Debian packages
scan /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list for files/patterns
handy manipulation of debian/rules
handy representation of Debian WNPP bug reports
offline storage of Debian's work-needing package lists
create Debian source package from CPAN dist
common routines for 'make' and 'refresh' dh-make-perl commands
dh-make-perl dump-config implementation
dh-make-perl help implementation
dh-make-perl locate implementation
implementation of 'dh-make-perl make'
dh-make-perl refresh implementation
dh-make-perl refresh-cache implementation
dh-make-perl configuration class
internal helper module for DhMakePerl
helper routined for dh-make-perl and alike