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I know... here it has been years since I posted on PM and here I am with my tin cup in my hand looking for help. I've been doing very little Perl work over the last five years but now I have a bunch of Perl modules I've created for my employer and now I'm baffled as to how to create Debian archives from the sources!

I obtained the dh-make-perl package for my main axe laptop which runs Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (soon to be upgraded) and quite frankly I'm baffled by it's behavior and my lack of success to get a package out of the deal.

So without further ado... here is what I'm seeing.

 dh-make-perl
== dh-make-perl 0.89 ==
Trying /home/peter/prj-src/perl/Saltydog-BlogBackup/../Saltydog-BlogBa
+ckup.tar.gz... not found.
Trying /home/peter/prj-src/perl/Saltydog-BlogBackup/../Saltydog-BlogBa
+ckup.tar.bz2... not found.
Trying /home/peter/prj-src/perl/Saltydog-BlogBackup/../Saltydog-BlogBa
+ckup.tar.xz... not found.
Trying /home/peter/prj-src/perl/Saltydog-BlogBackup/../Saltydog-BlogBa
+ckup.tar.lzma... not found.
WARNING: Neither META.json nor META.yml was found
Extracting name and version from Makefile.PL
---snip----
If you are building this package for your personal use, you might disr
+egard
this information; however, if you intend to upload this package to Deb
+ian
(or in general, if you plan on distributing it), you must look into th
+e
complete copyright information.

The causes for this warning are:
No licensing information found
No tarball found to handle with pristine-tar. Bailing out. at /usr/sha
+re/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/make.pm line 786.
[download]

Anymonk out there have experience with this? What in the world is it asking for?

Here is what is in the directory. This is just a post h2xs created module, figure if it doesn't work we never stand a chance.

Saltydog-BlogBackup]:(master): ls -R
.:
Changes  Makefile     MYMETA.json  Saltydog-BlogBackup-0.01.tar.gz
debian   Makefile.PL  MYMETA.yml   t
lib      MANIFEST     README

./debian:
changelog  compat  control  copyright  rules  source  watch

./debian/source:
format

./lib:
Saltydog

./lib/Saltydog:
BlogBackup.pm

./t:
Saltydog-BlogBackup.t
peter@saltycowdawg: Saltydog-BlogBackup]:(master): pwd
/home/peter/prj-src/perl/Saltydog-BlogBackup
peter@saltycowdawg: Saltydog-BlogBackup]:(master): ls
Changes  Makefile     MYMETA.json  Saltydog-BlogBackup-0.01.tar.gz
debian   Makefile.PL  MYMETA.yml   t
lib      MANIFEST     README
peter@saltycowdawg: Saltydog-BlogBackup]:(master): ls -R .
.:
Changes  Makefile     MYMETA.json  Saltydog-BlogBackup-0.01.tar.gz
debian   Makefile.PL  MYMETA.yml   t
lib      MANIFEST     README

./debian:
changelog  compat  control  copyright  rules  source  watch

./debian/source:
format

./lib:
Saltydog

./lib/Saltydog:
BlogBackup.pm

./t:
Saltydog-BlogBackup.t
[download]

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; Blog: http://blog.berghold.net Warning: No political correctness allowed.

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