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

On Thu, Jun 20, 2024 at 10:05:01PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:

>> * 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 dug a bit into Perl documentation and found a lot of
>information about building modules in perlnewmod(1)[1] and
>perlmodstyle(1)[2] manual pages.  The new module guide does
>suggest to create a stub with module-starter, along with h2x
>although comments in the documentation do not suggest this is
>particularly modern.  If you're after distributing your module
>through .deb, you may also have a stab at dh-make-perl(1p)[3],
>and why not maybe join the Debian Perl Team[4] to maintain them
>officially in Debian.  ;)
>
>[1]: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlnewmod
>[2]: https://perldoc.perl.org/perlmodstyle
>[3]: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/dh-make-perl/dh-make-perl.1p.en.html
>[4]: https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/
>

One thing I still appreciate about the Perl ecosystem is the amount of documentation.
Nowadays, I would start from the Task Kensho as a first (re)start.

[5] https://metacpan.org/pod/Task::Kensho::ModuleDev

>> * 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)
>

I find both git(hub/lab) and RT-based repositories running as backend for developers.
It is definitely your choice. The first one allows running actions/tasks easily
and that could be a big plus.