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

[gregor herrmann]

Control: serverity -1 serious

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:25:25 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> YAML::XS is packaged as libyaml-libyaml-perl:
> 
> % apt-file search YAML/XS.pm
> libyaml-libyaml-perl: /usr/lib/perl5/YAML/XS.pm
> libyaml-libyaml-perl: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/YAML/XS.pm
> 
> But yes, there's a dependency missing.

As per discussion on IRC I'm bumping the severity of this bug; a
missing dependency is obviously a blocker.


Cheers,
gregor

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