Bug#908164: dh-make-perl: Suggests to use dselect

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Thu Sep 6 21:33:42 BST 2018


Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.103

dh-make-perl gives quite outdated recommendations and suggests to run
"dselect update" (!) if it is unable to obtain version information for
some module:

Unable to obtain version information for Class::Accessor. You may need to install and run "dselect update" at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control/FromCPAN.pm line 351.
Unable to obtain version information for Parse::RecDescent. You may need to install and run "dselect update" at /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control/FromCPAN.pm line 351.

Please change that to "apt update" since fewer and fewer systems have
dselect installed: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=dpkg (And
probably even fewer administrators even know about it.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                      11.3.5
ii  dpkg-dev                       1.19.0.5
ii  fakeroot                       1.23-1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.34
ii  libarray-unique-perl           0.08-2
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.51-1
ii  libconfig-ini-perl             1:0.025-1
ii  libdebian-source-perl          0.103
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.19.0.5
ii  libemail-address-xs-perl       1.04-1
ii  libemail-date-format-perl      1.005-1
ii  libfile-which-perl             1.22-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.416-1+b3
ii  libmodule-depends-perl         0.16-3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-12
ii  libsoftware-license-perl       0.103013-2
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl             1.23-2
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl          1.88-1
ii  libwww-perl                    6.35-2
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl           0.72+repack-1
ii  libyaml-perl                   1.26-1
ii  make                           4.2.1-1.2
ii  perl [libcpan-meta-perl]       5.26.2-7

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt                   1.6.4
ii  apt-file              3.1.6
ii  git                   1:2.19.0~rc2-1
ii  libdpkg-parse-perl    0.03-2
ii  libmodule-build-perl  0.422400-1
ii  libsys-cpu-perl       0.61-2+b3
ii  pristine-tar          1.44

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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