[Wellington-pm] Packages and CPAN

[Cliffp]

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Cheers,

Cliff

On 06/09/12 09:16, Martyn Smith wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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?
>