weather script

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 10:59:55AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >
> >dh-make-perl --build --install --cpan Weather::Underground
> 
> Or on any Perl system, you can do:
> 
>  perl -MCPAN -e 'install Weather::Underground'
> 
> and it does the same thing.
> 
> Since distros are just a way of running Perl, you may find this preferable.

Actually it doesn't do the same thing.  The debian way actually creates
a .deb and installs it so it can be removed like any other _debian_
package.

The normal cpan module way just installs it into the perl modules dir
(which works, but your systems native packaging system knows nothing
about it).

Lennart Sorensen
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