Dist::...hordebs(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Dist::Zilla::App::Command::authordebs — the little dzil subcommand that lists (or installs!) all the Debian packages a Dist::Zilla author needs. It's literally your authoring deps, translated into apt-speak.

ABSTRACT: List or install Dist::Zilla authors dependencies as Debian packages. 🎀

This page lives in the Perl manual under Dist::...hordebs(3pm) — yeah the header is being dramatic, but bestie, it's the same page. 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Two ways to use it, both iconic:

dzil authordebs --install

apt install $( dzil authordebs )

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the tea: dzil authordebs calls up Dist::Zilla::Util::AuthorDeps, which scans the Perl module you need to build a Perl module with Dist::Zilla, and then hands you back the Debian packages that correspond to all that. Basically it's the translator between "my Perl deps" and "what do I type into apt". 💅

No cap, it's giving convenience.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --missing — only the modules you're actually missing get listed. No clutter, just the gaps. ✨
• --install — goes ahead and installs the required packages with sudo apt-get install. So yeah, your sudo has to be configured properly, otherwise it's gonna be a whole thing. 🙈
• --update-control or --uc — updates the Build-Depends field inside your debian/control file with the required packages. Same flag, two names, pick your fighter. 💖

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💀 EXIT CODE 💀

This command exits 1 if some of the required dependencies are not available as Debian packages. So if it bails with a 1, that's the vibe check failing — some dep just doesn't exist in Debian-land. 😭

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Fr fr, remember: --install runs sudo apt-get install for real. Make sure sudo is set up properly before you let it cook. 🔥

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Written up from the Perl documentation, perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-12-15 — that's the whole page, bestie. Slay, go build something. 💜🫶