[Catalyst] Debian + CPAN

[Jeff Chimene]

Jamie Neil wrote:
> Jeff Chimene wrote:
>> FWIW, I'm not thrilled w/ Debianized Perl modules; I've been attempting
>> to migrate away from Debianized Perl to CPAN only. There may be some
>> inherent limitations in that approach.
>
> I've been trying to go the other way and install as little as possible
> from CPAN. 
Why? My particular reason is Debian's release cycle; which reason may be
more of an assumption than reality. I have not compared CPAN package
release dates to Debian dates.
> For those situations where Debian doesn't have it, or I need a newer
> version than the Debian one, I use dh-make-perl.
I'll check dh-make-perl. That might render the above reason moot.
> Works straight from CPAN most of the time, but sometimes you need to
> download first and hack the Makefile a bit.
Thanks for the heads-up.

Cheers,
jec