Having a version of CPAN >= 1.81 ?

Charles Plessy · External Since: May 22, 2005 Posts: 371

Dear Perl team,

I am trying to prepare a Debian package for BioPerl version 1.5.2, but
the building fails with the following error:

- ERROR: CPAN (1.76_02) is installed, but we need version >= 1.81

Am I right if I say that CPAN in Debian belongs to perl-modules, and
that ther is no version of this pacakge which contain a high enough
version of CPAN ?

If yes, do you happen to plan to prepare an update in the short-term
future? Or shall I better upgrade locally CPAN for the moment? In that
case, is there method which is safer than others ?

Many thanks for your help, and have a nice day,

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gregor herrmann · External Since: Jan 07, 2005 Posts: 327

On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:04:27 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:

> If yes, do you happen to plan to prepare an update in the short-term
> future?

Besides the question if CPAN should be used in this case --
perl-modules ist not maintained by the Debian perl group but by
Brendan O'Dea <bod RemoveThis @debian.org>.

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Charles Plessy · External Since: May 22, 2005 Posts: 371

Le Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 01:09:25PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves a écrit :
>
> You shouldn't be using CPAN.pm to build a Debian package, I don't think,
> as that is designed for automatically fetch source from remote sites.
> Therefore I would suggest that you disable this functionality.

Many thanks for the hint, Dominic,

The problem was in debian/rules, the makefile was explicitely asked to
download recommended modules:

echo "a" | perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor

I changed "a" to "n", and disabled the version check for CPAN in
Build.pl, and it solved my problem.

Have a nice day,

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