Bug#548937: dh-make-perl: META.yml parsing in Module::Install controlled dists does not seem to work

[Slaven Rezic]

Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.47
Severity: normal

Trying to build Image::Info with dh-make-perl results in the following log:

$ dh-make-perl --build --cpan Image::Info
Image-Info-1.29/
[...]
Image-Info-1.29/META.yml
[...]
======================================================================
Could not find the dependencies for the requested module.
Generated error: Can't use an undefined value as a HASH reference at /usr/bin/dh-make-perl line 723.
Please check if your module depends on Module::Install
for its build process - Automatically finding its
dependencies is unsupported, please specify them manually
using the 'depends' option. 
Alternatively, including a META.yml file with dependencies
should allow discovery even for Module::Install modules. 
======================================================================

The last suggestion is about including a META.yml file into the
distribution to help in parsing the dependencies. But there is
already a META.yml in the distribution, and there is no indication
that the YAML there is invalid.

Regards,
     Slaven

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                7.0.15          helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.14.25         Debian package development tools
ii  fakeroot                 1.11            Gives a fake root environment
ii  libemail-date-format-per 1.002-1         Module to generate RFC-2822-valid 
ii  libmodule-depends-perl   0.14-1          identify the dependencies of a dis
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl    1.34-2          Automate interaction with websites
ii  libyaml-perl             0.66-1          YAML Ain't Markup Language (tm)
ii  make                     3.81-5          The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libpod-par 5.10.0-19lenny2 Core Perl modules

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file                 2.1.5           APT package searching utility -- c
ii  perl-modules [libmodule- 5.10.0-19lenny2 Core Perl modules

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

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