[maemo-developers] Debhelper 7

[From: Thomas Tanner]

just found this old message:

Marius Vollmer wrote:
> That's the magic.  You will likely need to update Perl as well, and then
> update many many Perl modules.  This is what I have done for Harmattan,
> and now I am sitting on about 100 packages that I have updated... :-)

it is actually much less
http://www.maemory.com/N900/perl5.10/
http://www.maemory.com/N900/libperl/
but running it in the SDK is a hassle
(you need to move devkit perl away and fix all references)

> You can also backport debhelper 7 to Perl 5.8.

that's what I have done:
http://www.maemory.com/N900/build/
you'll have to move away the dh_* files from your devkits
otherwise it won't use the files from the package.

You could also try the SDK+ based on scratchbox 2
http://maemo-sdk.garage.maemo.org/
which make it easy to use the host perl with
export SBOX_REDIRECT_FORCE=/usr/bin/perl

cheers,
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