FFe Approved: Sync dh-make-perl 0.59 (universe) from Debian unstable (main) to fix FTBFS

This bug is currently being looked at in Debian by the pkg-perl team. They are currently trying to decide on the best way to go about resolving the issue. I think it would be best to wait for the bug to be fixed in Debian and then sync the package.

This got fixed in Debian in 0.58. They have since moved on to 0.59, but the changelog for that seems relatively innocuous. Ideally we can just sync 0.58, but doing 0.59 looks safe too:

So we want to sync dh-make-perl 0.58/0.59 from sid. Subscribing universe-sponsors.

dh-make-perl (0.59) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Damyan Ivanov ]
  * debian/rules: compact to (almost) 3 lines

  [ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (dh-make-perl, tests and generated
    packages).
    - The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned Depend and
      Build-Depend on perl >= 5.6.0-16 has been removed.
  * t/Control.t: Adjust use of perl dependency in Build-Depends-Indep
    filed generated for test. Use Standards-Version 3.8.3 in generated
    `real' control file too.
  * lib/Debian/Control/FromCPAN.pm: get rid of the min_perl_version
    constant use.

 -- Damyan Ivanov <email address hidden> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:30:25 +0300

dh-make-perl (0.58) unstable; urgency=low

  [ gregor herrmann ]
  * POD: add a notice that --notest was removed and the new way to skip tests
    is to add nocheck to the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable
    (closes: #536733).

  [ Ansgar Burchardt ]
  * fix two typos in the documentation

  [ Damyan Ivanov ]
  * t/core-modules.t: add a bogus module test
  * corelist.t: do not iterate over modules in /usr/share|lib/perl/$VER
    some of the modules there aren't core, notably
    CPANPLUS::Config::System. Closes: #536989

 -- Damyan Ivanov <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:11:45 +0300

We are past Feature Freeze, and since dh-make-perl has had a fair number of changes to the debian/rules file and to its dependencies (much more than just bug fixes), I think an ACK from motu-release would be appropriate. I am subscribing motu-release and unsubscribing ubuntu-universe-sponsors.

I have tested version .059, and I have confirmed that it fixes this FTBFS issue. It also appears to be working fine from the testing I have done. I will give a +1 for syncing 0.59

plus one from me.

+1, confirming, please go ahead

 dh-make-perl (0.58) unstable; urgency=low

   [ gregor herrmann ]
   * POD: add a notice that --notest was removed and the new way to skip tests
     is to add nocheck to the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable
     (closes: #536733).

   [ Ansgar Burchardt ]
   * fix two typos in the documentation

   [ Damyan Ivanov ]
   * t/core-modules.t: add a bogus module test
   * corelist.t: do not iterate over modules in /usr/share|lib/perl/$VER
     some of the modules there aren't core, notably
     CPANPLUS::Config::System. Closes: #536989

 -- Damyan Ivanov <email address hidden> Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:11:45 +0300

[Updating] dh-make-perl (0.57 [Ubuntu] < 0.59 [Debian])
 * Trying to add dh-make-perl...
  - <dh-make-perl_0.59.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <dh-make-perl_0.59.tar.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: dh-make-perl [universe] -> dh-make-perl_0.56 [universe].