[Koha-devel] Some CPAN modules Koha needs in Debian now

[Lars Wirzenius]

This might be a nice small bit of good news to start the week.

Debian squeeze has most of the CPAN modules Koha needs, but five were
missing. I made packages for them and got them uploaded into Debian.
They last of them has just this weekend gotten through the NEW queue,
which is where new Debian packages wait for the Debian ftp-master to
check them.

Right now, all five packages are only in Debian unstable (a.k.a. sid),
but if there are no bugs found, they should land in Debian squeeze in
about ten days, I hope.

If you wish, you can check their current status in Debian via the
following page:

http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=lars%
40catalyst.net.nz&comaint=yes

When it lists a version for "Testing", then the package is in squeeze
(squeeze being the current development/testing version of Debian).

There is a reasonable chance that Koha will install and work on Debian
squeeze out of the box, without any additional software to be installed.

Note that I do not yet know if everything required to actually run all
parts of Koha are there yet, but Koha does pass the automatic test suite
with these packages installed.