Quite a few of my CPAN modules have been repackaged by people in lands far and distant as .rpm files. But now I would like to package several of them in a .deb so that they could be distributed to Debian, Ubuntu and related Linux distributions -- such as at my current employer!

The hard way to do this would be for me to learn how to make a .deb myself.

The Lazy way would be to see if there's something on CPAN that can do it for me.

Based on the documentation, the likeliest candidate is DPKG-Tools. However, in the documentation its author characterizes it as an incomplete effort. It appears to have been a school project and has not been updated in nearly four years.

Has anyone used this module, and with what results?

If not, is there some other Perl that will do this?

Thank you very much.

Jim Keenan

In reply to Seek Perl module to build .deb files by jkeenan1

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