[csw-maintainers] Perl v5.10.1 in testing versus cssh

[Sebastian Kayser]

Dagobert Michelsen wrote on 22.12.2009 14:27:
> Am 22.12.2009 um 00:22 schrieb Sebastian Kayser:
>>> Sebastian, would you mind giving it a look?
>> My time is limited also (will be away most of the holidays), but I  
>> will
>> have a look. IIRC I even spotted a full blown CPAN-to-build- 
>> description
>> utility within another distro. Might well be suitable/adjustable for  
>> our
>> purposes. What sort of time pressure do we have with the perl upgrade?
> 
> Well, the Perl in current is broken to the point that some packages  
> can't be compiled due to conflict in current vs. shipped MakeMaker. Perl  
> 5.10.1 solves this, so timely shipping would certainly be good.
> 
> BTW, the cpan2pkg script I mentioned is based on the script you cited,
> but already has all the stuff from CSW in it with the exception of
> producing packages instead of GAR Makefiles.

Time flies. Will be away until the 02.01. and didn't get to do anything
aside from the "family schedule" so far, sorry. If anyone feels like
hacking away on the cpan2pkg/cpan2gar script in the meantime, please
give it a go.

Dago, for reference purposes, was this script inspired by Gentoo's
g-cpan [1] or something else? Couldn't find a reference in the script
itself.

Sebastian

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/perl/g-cpan.xml