Now also Ubuntu Perl packages indexed. For example Moose::Meta::Class
Package: libmoose-perl Package version: 0.31-1 Module version: 0.16 Arch: all Dist: hardy Component: universe Package: libmoose-perl Package version: 0.94-1 Module version: 0.94 Arch: amd64 Dist: lucid Component: universe Package: libmoose-perl Package version: 1.23-1 Module version: 1.23 Arch: amd64 Dist: natty Component: universe Package: libmoose-perl Package version: 2.0200-1…
To make the Debian-Perl module look-up more useful, there are now install instructions included. That means that all non-packaged CPAN dependencies and also all packaged ones are listed and it's clear what can be installed from packages and what needs to be installed from CPAN. Here's an example for App::TimeTracker:
sudo apt-get install libexception-class-perl libclass-accessor-perl libmoosex-role-parameterized-perl libjson-perl libnamespace-autoclean-…
After more then a year of silence I've managed to resurrect the Debian::Apt::PM and new Perl indexes are available for both i386 and amd64 platforms.
For now the web site can be used to find out if a Perl module is packaged for Debian with which version or not at all. Ex.:
Let this blog post be also an invitation to my talk that I'll have on this years YAPC::EU::2011 in Riga and a reason "Why?" there will be more questions then answers.
There is one question that keeps me busy for quite some months now already and that is: What if the knowledge and wisdom is not in answers, but in questions?
As it kept me busy for just too long and as I'm a full-time Perl programmer, I've decided to write a code to help me answer "Why?".
package Acme::KnowledgeWisdom; our $VERSION = …
I'll cross-post here Perl related entries from my private blog.