[csw-maintainers] Changing the package description for Perl modules

[Philip Brown]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> If I want to install a Perl module I have to look up which package
> it is in. That means I know it is Config::Augeas on CPAN. This may
> or may nor translate to CSWpmconfigaugeas, CSWpmcfgaugeas or
> CSWpmcfgaug. We could also have special variables in the pkginfo
> which must then find their way to the package database somehow, like
>  PERL_MODULE_NAME=Config::Augeas
> That's why the description seemsed easiest.
>

I think that the special variable may be the best approach; some of
those CPAN paths are ludicrously long, and would then obscure a
meaningful description field.