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I get 
$ dh-make-perl --build --cpan String-Random-0.22
Dispatching deprecated method 'CPAN::Config::load' to CPAN::HandleConf
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CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69)
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /home/bri/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:03:08 GMT
Can't find 'String::Random::0.22' module on CPAN

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dh-make-perl --build --cpan ... expects a package name ie dh-make-perl --build --cpan String::Random

I've built hundreds of packages using dh-make perl. Here's how I do it...

  1. cd ~/.cpanplus/5.10.0/build/
  2. cpanp t MooseX::Getopt # I let CPANPLUS handle the dependencies
  3. dh-make-perl --build MooseX-Getopt-0.15
  4. This leaves the built deb, libmoosex-getopt-perl_0.15-1_all.deb in my cpanplus build directory. You could use this file, but I continue
  5. rm libmoosex-getopt-perl_0.15-1_all.deb
  6. cd MooseX-Getopt-0.15/
  7. emacs debian/changelog # change first line from (0.15-1) to (0.15-0) so that any official package will overwrite mine
  8. dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc # rebuild the package
  9. cd ..
  10. sudo dpkg -i libmoosex-getopt-perl_0.15-0_all.deb

There's probably an option to dh-make-perl to set the debian version number that would make steps 5-9 unnecessary, but it's so little effort I haven't looked.

I actually followed these steps as I've typed them up, so why not follow along and report back which bit doesn't work for you?

Update:

There is indeed an option to set the package's version number, but you have to include the upstream version number too: dh-make-perl --version 0.15-0.0 --build MooseX-Getopt-0.15

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Re^2: Issues installing CPAN modules on Debian (OT)
by bradcathey (Prior) on Aug 03, 2008 at 22:10 UTC

    Thanks for the indepth reply FunkyMonk, but I bomb at the very first step:

    cd ~/.cpanplus/5.10.0/build
-bash: cd: /home/bradc/.cpanplus: No such file or directory

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    I'm not sure what I should be looking for. I was able to get to ~/.cpan/build but the cpanp is not found (expected). Is ./cpanplus part of Perl 5.10?

    —Brad
    "The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot
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      Yes, CPANPLUS is included with 5.10, but it's also available for other Perls from CPAN.

      However, that shouldn't matter. cpan -t MooseX::Getopt will fetch & test MooseX::Getopt in ~/.cpan/build/. Other than that I think the steps should be the same.

      Let us know how you get on.

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