Arch Linux

The pkgbuild now includes an unofficial 64-bit patch, sourced from http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270937. There's some useful discussion there too, if you're interested. I don't have access to a 64-bit machine, so I don't know whether the patch works or not.

Disowned for you.

Sorry to be so slow to reply. I'd be happy to be the maintainer, if that suits you.

Would you be interested in maintaining? I haven't used this in a long time.

The modified PKGBUILD below installs into vendor_perl.

->-----------------------------------------------
# based on the AUR pkgbuild

pkgname=hearse
pkgver=1.5
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Nethack online bones file exchanger"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://hearse.krollmark.com/"
license=('GPL')
depends=('perl' 'perl-libwww')
source=(http://www.argon.org/~roderick/hearse/dist/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
options=(!emptydirs)
install=hearse.install
md5sums=('4c022342d3f75af3b70a3e07e8e82ee0')

build() {
cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver

# Install module in vendor directories.
PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor
make
}

package() {
cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir/"

sed -e '/my $Run_as_user/ s/games/root/' \
-e '/my $Run_as_group/ s/games/root/' \
-i $pkgdir/usr/bin/vendor_perl/hearse

install -m644 -D $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/hearse.conf \
$pkgdir/etc/nethack/hearse.conf

sed -e 's|# bones-dir.*|bones-dir /var/games/nethack|' \
-i $pkgdir/etc/nethack/hearse.conf
}

Also I've noticed there's a patch for 64-bit support via a link on the hearse website. You might want to include that as part of the build for the x86_64 case.

According to the Arch Pearl Policy wiki, this should be installed to vendor_perl:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl_Policy

during install edit PKGBUILD
change line 24 from:
-i $pkgdir/usr/bin/perlbin/site/hearse
into:
-i $pkgdir/usr/bin/site_perl/hearse

needs modification in order to build. hearse is put in $pkgdir/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl or similiar where sed does not find it.