Bug#543655: failure trying to convert WWW::Mechanize::GZip

[Christine Spang]

Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.59
Severity: normal

dh-make-perl explodes when I try to debianise WWW::Mechanize::GZip:

spang at freyja:~/src/packages> dh-make-perl --cpan WWW::Mechanize::GZip
Dispatching deprecated method 'CPAN::Config::load' to CPAN::HandleConfig
Going to read /home/spang/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:27:03 GMT
Going to read /home/spang/.cpan/build/
.............................................................................DONE
Found 8 old builds, restored the state of 8
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.45)
  Checksum was ok
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/Makefile.PL
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/README
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/lib/
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/lib/WWW/
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/lib/WWW/Mechanize/
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/lib/WWW/Mechanize/GZip.pm
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/t/
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/t/00-load.t
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/t/boilerplate.t
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/t/pod.t
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/t/pod-coverage.t
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/META.yml
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/.cvsignore
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/MANIFEST
WWW-Mechanize-GZip-0.12/Changes
CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.18)
Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl.pm line 699.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                     7.3.15     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.3.1   Debian package development tools
ii  fakeroot                      1.13       Gives a fake root environment
ii  libapt-pkg-perl               0.1.24     Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-perl        0.33-1     Automated accessor generator
ii  libemail-date-format-perl     1.002-1    Module to generate RFC-2822-valid 
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl        0.24-1     addition list functions not found 
ii  libmodule-corelist-perl       2.18-2     what modules shipped with versions
ii  libmodule-depends-perl        0.14-3     identify the dependencies of a dis
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl      2.005-2    Easy OO parsing of Debian control-
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2    parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl            1.21-2     ordered associative arrays for Per
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl         1.58-1     module to automate interaction wit
ii  libyaml-perl                  0.70-1     YAML Ain't Markup Language
ii  make                          3.81-6     An utility for Directing compilati
ii  perl                          5.10.0-25  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-corel 5.10.0-25  Core Perl modules

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file                      2.3.0      search for files within Debian pac
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-build 5.10.0-25  Core Perl modules

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

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