Re: Bug#1052224: ITP: libalien-base-modulebuild-perl -- subclass of Module::Build for building Alien:: modules and their libraries

On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 06:13:09PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:48:41 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>
>> > Sorry to be a pain again :) but: Do we really need this?
>>
>> Unfortunately yes for me, it is in the dep chain for Geo::GDAL::FFI, as for
>> https://wiki.debian.org/BookwormGdalPerl
>> which is my main goal to avoid to mantain an unofficial repo for the rest
>> of time.
>
>You mean because of Alien::gdal?
>
>I can't really test now, because Geo::GDAL::FFI also needs the
>unpackaged FFI::Platypus::Declare, but from reading
>https://metacpan.org/release/AJOLMA/Geo-GDAL-FFI-0.1/source/Makefile.PL
>and
>https://metacpan.org/release/AJOLMA/Geo-GDAL-FFI-0.1/source/README.md
>a simple
>
>override_dh_auto_configure:
>    dh_auto_configure -- GDAL=/usr
>
>plus build dependencies on gdal-bin (for /usr/bin/gdalinfo) and libgdal-dev
>might be enough without any Alien::gdal. Maybe :)
>
>(Not sure about
>https://metacpan.org/release/AJOLMA/Geo-GDAL-FFI-0.1/source/lib/Geo/GDAL/FFI.pm#L1567
>but this is also guarded by an if())
>

Mmmm, let me see. The chain I used was to impact minimally on changes for the module
taken from CPAN. I would be happy to minimize the use of all that stuff, I was not exactly
enthusiastic about the new course at the time.