Re: packaging help?

[Jeremy DS Volkening <volkening mailshack com>]

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 08:57 +1000, Chris Debenham wrote:
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> I think there is a little confusion on what the original poster was
> asking  - answers are coming to two separate questions.
> When it comes to packaging perl things there are two separate areas.
> There is the packaging of perl modules (like Gtk2::Ex::Clock) and
> there is the entirely separate area for packaging applications that
> happen to be written in perl.
> For packaging perl modules there are the various cpan2deb tools along
> with special perl module stuff built into dh_make.
> For packaging applications which are written in perl you don't need
> any other that stuff.  You package it the same as any other
> application but with the end result coming from a binary-indep rule
> rather than a binary-arch rule (so "Architecture: all" is in the
> control file rather than a specific arch)
>
> So I guess the question is to the original poster - are you packaging
> a perl module itself (to be used by other things) or are you packaging
> an application which uses perl?
> Depending on which is relevant the answer is different

That is exactly the dilemna I was running up against when I first
started out, and I suppose what I was trying to get at in my initial
post. Most of the docs seem to be geared toward packaging modules, while
I'm interested in packaging full-fledged apps. A lot of my code <is>
broken up into modules, but I also need to install .desktop files, mime
types, application/mimetype icon themes, data files, user config files,
etc. It seemed like Module::Build might have the flexibility to do all
of this, but it doesn't look like it's compatible with dh-make-perl.

I guess I was hoping someone might say, "Hey, what you want is this
book/howto/tutorial called "Packaging Perl Applications for the GNOME
Desktop" or something equally to the point. I've since decided that I'm
just being lazy, and that I really need to get into the nitty gritty of
Makefiles and the GNOME specifications to do what I want to do in the
"right" way. Thanks to everyone for the advice.

Jeremy

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> On 20 April 2010 08:25, Kevin Ryde <user42 zip com au> wrote:
> > Jeremy Volkening <volkening mailshack com> writes:
> > > b) downloading source packages of gtk2-perl based apps
> >
> > For what it's worth I've been using cdbs with a debian dir left in the
> > cpan .tar.gz (eg. Gtk2::Ex::Clock for a simple example), which means
> > "fakeroot debian/rules binary" builds from the tar.  (Latest cdbs
> > introduces a pointless renaming of the perl .mk files designed to be
> > incompatible with older debian, but that can be ignored.)
> >
> > dh-make-perl can be persuaded to give reasonable output but you probably
> > want to massage the description fields and probably the dependencies
> > list too.  (It also like to generate debhelper 7 format to limit
> > backward compatibility.)
> >
> > I tried cpan2deb but it seemed to end up with slightly different layout
> > than native debian packages.  Perhaps that's changed by now.
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