<title>Debian Perl Policy</title>
<author>
<name>Raphaël Hertzog</name>
- <email>hertzog@debian.org</email>
</author>
<author>
<name>Brendan O'Dea</name>
- <email>bod@debian.org</email>
</author>
- <version>version 1.19</version>
+ <author>
+ <name>The Debian Policy mailing list</name>
+ <email>debian-policy@lists.debian.org</email>
+ </author>
+ <version>version 1.20</version>
<abstract>
This document describes the packaging of Perl within the Debian
</example>
and this one to install the results into the temporary tree:
<example>
-$(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr
- </example>
+$(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/usr
+ </example><footnote>
+ <p>Replace <tmp> with the appropriate directory
+ (nominally just tmp)</p>
+ </footnote>
</p>
<p>
A <tt>Build-Depends</tt> on <tt>perl (>= 5.6.0-16)</tt> is
a minimum version of the <package>perl</package> package
used to build the module, and must additionally depend on
the expansion of
- <package>perlapi-$Config{version}</package>.
+ <package>perlapi-$Config{version}</package> using
+ the <tt>Config</tt> module.
</p>
</sect1>
in the form <tt>perl:Depends=<var>deps</var></tt>.
</p>
<p>
- Packages built with <prgn>debhelper</prgn> may use <manref
- name="dh_perl" section=1> to generate this substitution
- automatically. Additionally requires a
- <tt>Build-Depends</tt> on <tt>debhelper (>= 3.0.18)</tt>.
+ Packages built with <prgn>debhelper</prgn> may use
+
+ <manref name="dh_perl" section="1"> to generate this
+ substitution automatically. This additionally requires a
+ versioned <tt>Build-Depends</tt> (or
+ <tt>Build-Depends-Indep</tt>) on <tt>debhelper (>=
+ 3.0.18)</tt>.
</p>
</sect1>
</sect>
</p>
<p>
As with modules, packages using <prgn>debhelper</prgn> may use
- <manref name="dh_perl" section=1> to automatically generate
+ <manref name="dh_perl" section="1"> to automatically generate
dependences (see <ref id="dh_perl">).
</p>
</sect>