in reply to What to tell Module::Build, and where?
Debian (that Ubuntu is derived from) has a package called dh-make-perl that will download (using CPAN), make, test and build a .deb automatically
Can you get that from apt-get? (If not, can you use the Debian package?)
Disclaimer: I'm a user of Debian, not Ubuntu
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