fails when given a directory (for 2 reasons)

[Alexander Karelas]

karjala@modules-vm:~/test/geosWay$ ls
XML-MyXML-0.0993 XML-MyXML-0.0993.tar.gz

karjala@modules-vm:~/test/geosWay$ dh-make-perl XML-MyXML-0.0993
Using META.json
Found: XML-MyXML 0.0993 (libxml-myxml-perl arch=all)
cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
No APT contents can be loaded.
Please install 'apt-file' package (at least version 2.5.0) and
run 'apt-file update' as root.
Dependencies not updated.
Using maintainer: Alexander Karelas <karjala@>
Found docs: README
cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
Using rules: /usr/share/dh-make-perl/rules.dh7.tiny
cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
--- Done
fatal: pathspec 'XML-MyXML-0.0993' did not match any files
add XML-MyXML-0.0993: command returned error: 128

The above failed because I did not give dh-make-perl the FULL path of the directory of my module. This is the first bug I want to report.

The second bug is that EVEN IF I give it the full path, it still fails:

karjala@modules-vm:~/test/geosWay$ rm -rf XML-MyXML-0.0993
karjala@modules-vm:~/test/geosWay$ tar xvfz XML-MyXML-0.0993.tar.gz
karjala@modules-vm:~/test/geosWay$ dh-make-perl /home/karjala/test/geosWay/XML-MyXML-0.0993
Using META.json
Found: XML-MyXML 0.0993 (libxml-myxml-perl arch=all)
cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
No APT contents can be loaded.
Please install 'apt-file' package (at least version 2.5.0) and
run 'apt-file update' as root.
Dependencies not updated.
Using maintainer: Alexander Karelas <karjala@>
Found docs: README
cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
Using rules: /usr/share/dh-make-perl/rules.dh7.tiny
cat: /etc/mailname: No such file or directory
--- Done
Switched to a new branch 'master'
Use of uninitialized value $tarball in system at /usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/make.pm line 623.
tar: Old option `f' requires an argument.
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
: No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Pristine/Tar/Formats.pm line 65.
pristine-tar: failed to generate delta
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

karjala@modules-vm:~/test/geosWay$ ls
XML-MyXML-0.0993 XML-MyXML-0.0993.tar.gz

As you can see there were a lot of errors, and in the final ls I didn't get the libxml-myxml-perl.tar.gz file that I needed. This is the second bug that I wish to report.

If instead of a directory I had given it the --cpan option, then I would get the correct results without errors.

[Damyan Ivanov (dmn-debian)]

Just to make sure, which version of dh-make-perl is that?

[Alexander Karelas (karjala)]

Both the one on quantal and the one on raring.

[Alexander Karelas (karjala)]

raring is 0.76-1

quantal is 0.75-1

[Damyan Ivanov (dmn-debian)]

the first problem is fixed in version 0.77, which is available in Debian/unstable since a week.

when giving an absolute directory path there are still problems, it seems.