[Wellington-pm] Packages and CPAN

[Martyn Smith]

If you want to generally play with Debian packages, I recommend using
dh-make-perl

It will build a Debian package from a CPAN module for you, then you just
treat it like any other Debian pacakge.

--
Martyn

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Cliffp <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:

> I always use Debian packages (actually Ubuntu packages) where I can, but
> I'm looking at installing something from CPAN.
>
> Does CPAN play with Perl Debian packages in a friendly way? Or will I hit
> issues when applying patches? Will CPAN force updates to existing Debian
> packages thereby confusing the Debian package manager?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
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