p5-http-date port submission

[brian.gupta@…]

I am missing HTTP/Date.pm, which is needed for a certain script I am running.

[brian.gupta@…]

FOr now, I am going to use cpan2port

[brian.gupta@…]

Portfile generated by cpan2port for p5-http-date

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

This Portfile looks like it was generated with an old version of cpan2port, and needs a lot of cleanup.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I've attached a revised portfile with these changes:

• use valid maintainer (nomaintainer)
• add required long_description variable
• remove extract.suffix and master_sites lines because their values were the defaults
• remove md5 checksum which I consider obsolete
• add "supported_archs noarch" since this port installs no architecture-specific files
• use consistent formatting

Remember that cpan2port is not a foolproof one-step make-a-perfect-port tool. It's merely a first step you can use to get a rough beginning of a portfile, and still requires you to understand and employ portfile writing best practices.

I am not committing this yet, because p5-libwww-perl currently provides this module. The effort to upgrade p5-libwww-perl to the new version that comes as separate ports including p5-http-date is covered by #28865.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

revised portfile proposal

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

This Portfile looks like it was generated with an old version of cpan2port, and needs a lot of cleanup.

I've just fixed the download URL on the howto page so it doesn't point to an old revision.

[l2g@…]

This has now been committed with the rest of libwww-perl's big new family (r79379).