Ahh robe-d fiends, I present to thee, a question!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR?

If you answered "Debian" to that you either:
  1. May be able to answer my question
  2. May have a poor English vocabulary
Basically my question is this, I'd like to write a perl module that automatically builds debian pacakages from their tar.gz equivalents (possibly depending on the fruit that falls from the MakeMaker tree, and not dependant on debhelper), but it's tough to find a perl module for the ar archive format. Nothing I see on CPAN leads me to believe that it exists, but I could be wrong. Is the ar format (documented here), tackled by any of the other compression modules? Thanks a bunch. If no one can find anything, then I'll be starting to work on that. Thanks.

    --jb

In reply to Is there a perl module available for ar archives / debian packages by JayBonci

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