Bug#775725: -make-perl requires YAML::XS, which is not installed (nor even packaged for Debian)

[Moritz Lenz]

Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.84-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

when running

     dh-make-perl --vcs '' --desc 'dummy' .

on a git-clone of https://github.com/jamesc/nagios-plugins-rabbitmq I 
got this output:

[...]
Needs the following debian packages during building: perl (>= 5.9.4)
Package does not provide a long description -  Please fill it in manually.
Using maintainer: Moritz Lenz <mlenz at noris.net>
Found docs: README.md
Using rules: /usr/share/dh-make-perl/rules.dh.tiny
Module::Build needs perl
Can't locate YAML/XS.pm in @INC (you may need to install the YAML::XS 
module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl 
/usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.1 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 
/usr/local/lib/site_perl /home/mlenz/src/nagios-plugins-rabbitmq) at 
/usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm line 1580, <DATA> line 6.

And indeed, line 1580 of /usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm is

     require YAML::XS;

but dh-make-perl neither depends on libyaml-xs-perl, nor does such a package
exist in Debian Jessie.

Please consider using 'YAML', 'YAML::Syc' or 'YAML::Tiny' instead, and
declaring the dependency in the Debian package.

Best regards,
Moritz Lenz

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
   APT prefers testing-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                         9.20141022
ii  dpkg-dev                          1.17.23
ii  fakeroot                          1.20.2-1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.29+b2
ii  libarray-unique-perl              0.08-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl            0.34-1
ii  libcpan-meta-perl                 2.142690-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.17.23
ii  libemail-address-perl             1.905-2
ii  libemail-date-format-perl         1.005-1
ii  libfile-which-perl                1.09-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.33-2+b1
ii  libmodule-depends-perl            0.16-1
ii  libparse-debcontrol-perl          2.005-4
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-1.1
ii  libsoftware-license-perl          0.103010-3
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl                1.23-1
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl             1.73-2
ii  libyaml-perl                      1.13-1
ii  make-guile [make]                 4.0-8
ii  perl                              5.20.1-4
ii  perl-modules [libcpan-meta-perl]  5.20.1-4

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file      2.5.4
ii  git           1:2.1.4-2
ii  pristine-tar  1.32

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

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