cpanspec 1.74

I released cpanspec 1.74 this morning. There's some information about it on the Fedora wiki, but the short version is that cpanspec generates spec files (or, optionally, rpms) for Perl packages on CPAN. As an example, you could build a source rpm for String::Random like this:

$ cpanspec -v -s String::Random
Updating /home/steve/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz...
Fetching /home/steve/.cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz from http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz...
Fetching String-Random-0.22.tar.gz from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/ST/STEVE/String-Random-0.22.tar.gz...
Trying to fetch description from String-Random-0.22/lib/String/Random.pm...
Writing perl-String-Random.spec...
Building source rpm from perl-String-Random.spec
Wrote: /home/steve/src/fedora/rpms/cpanspec/devel/tmp/perl-String-Random-0.22-1.fc7.src.rpm

Unlike most other automated (or semi-automated) solutions for building spec files for Perl modules, cpanspec actually gets the Summary, License, URL, description, and dependencies (if available) from the CPAN metadata and other sources. In many cases, packages generated with cpanspec are completely done and ready to use (or submit for package review).

Obviously there are a few things cpanspec doesn't handle well. See BUGS and TODO. Patches always welcome. :-)