Re: some advices about packaging and orphaning on CPAN and debian

Hi Marc,

I maintain a bunch of Perl modules on CPAN [1] as well in Debian [2].

On 2024-06-19 16:28, Marc Chantreux wrote:
> So I have questions:
> 
> * are there docs to read and tools (or scaffold) to use when you want to
>    package to CPAN the way people do in 2024? I remember about module-starter
>    and distzilla, both had issues and Makefile.PL was good enough for me.

I have had reasonably good experience with Dist::Zilla, as it reduces 
the build and distribution infrastructure to a single configuration 
file, usually of few dozens lines of length even for XS packages. For 
one more intricate case I had to write Module::Build plugin.

To package CPAN modules for Debian I use cpan2deb (a.k.a. dh-make-perl) [3].

> * I'll move the projects from github and deal with patches and issues by
>    mail. can we still use the PAUSE RT to do so ? (I'll update the documentations)

As Étienne and Russ wrote, rt.cpan.org has been salvaged.

Best,
Andrius

[1] https://metacpan.org/author/MERKYS
[2] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=merkys%40debian.org
[3] 
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/dh-make-perl/dh-make-perl.1p.en.html