NAME Dist::Zilla::App::Command::dhmakeperl - use dh-make-perl to generate .deb archives from your CPAN package VERSION version 0.003 SYNOPSIS Once the package is installed and you have setup the prereqs, you can run the following command inside your package folder: dzil dhmakeperl Once this is done your package will be tested and deb file will be generated in the debuild folder for you. DESCRIPTION This is a extension for the L App that adds a command dhmakeperl to your dzil package for compiling your perl modules into .deb packages. Before you install this package make sure that dh-make-perl is installed in your debian/ubuntu system. There are some additional app requirements that you might want to install for dh-make-perl to avoid annoying warnings from dh-make-perl. sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl sudo apt-get install apt-file sudo apt-file update To make sure that your changelog and debian control file is included use plugins L and L in your dist.ini METHODS abstract opt_spec validate_args execute NOTES * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=683533 If you have accidentally upgraded Makemaker you may apply this patch to fix the perllocal.pod error. --- ./Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/makefile.pm 2012-05-19 17:26:26.000000000 +0200 +++ ./Debian/Debhelper/Buildsystem/makefile.pm.new 2012-08-01 15:53:41.000000000 +0200 @@ -100,9 +100,9 @@ sub install { my $this=shift; my $destdir=shift; - $this->make_first_existing_target(['install'], + $this->make_first_existing_target(['pure_install', 'install'], "DESTDIR=$destdir", "AM_UPDATE_INFO_DIR=no", @_); } * The .deb archive is created using code in your current repository. It does not use cpan2deb to pull CPAN code to create the .deb archive. * You must have dh-make-perl installed on your system to use this command. * use sudo apt-get install dh-make-perl to install it on debian and ubuntu. * The .deb file will be created in the debuild folder, This should be added to your .gitignore file. SUPPORT Bugs / Feature Requests Please report any bugs or feature requests through github at https://github.com/shantanubhadoria/dist-zilla-app-command-dhmakeperl /issues. You will be notified automatically of any progress on your issue. Source Code This is open source software. The code repository is available for public review and contribution under the terms of the license. https://github.com/shantanubhadoria/dist-zilla-app-command-dhmakeperl git clone git://github.com/shantanubhadoria/dist-zilla-app-command-dhmakeperl.git AUTHOR Shantanu Bhadoria CONTRIBUTORS * Shantanu * Shantanu Bhadoria COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Shantanu Bhadoria. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.