Bug#576878: dh-make-perl: bad control file building Exporter::Renaming

[Kevin Ryde]

Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.65
Severity: normal

With Exporter::Renaming 1.18 from cpan and untarred, running

    dh-make-perl --requiredeps --build Exporter-Renaming-1.18

fails with

    dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in debian/control at line 15: continued value line not in field

That line is a "." in debian/control,

,----
| Description: Allow renaming of symbols on import
| 
|  .
|  This description was automagically extracted from the module by dh-make-perl.
`----

I suppose the blank line is no good.  There was an earlier complaint

    Package does not provide a long description -  Please fill it in manually.

if that's relevant.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dh-make-perl depends on:
ii  debhelper                     7.4.15     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.5.6   Debian package development tools
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  libapt-pkg-perl               0.1.24     Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libarray-unique-perl          0.08-1     Tie-able array that allows only un
ii  libclass-accessor-perl        0.34-1     Perl module that automatically gen
ii  libemail-date-format-perl     1.002-1    Module to generate RFC-2822-valid 
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl        0.25-02-1  Provide the stuff missing in List:
ii  libmodule-corelist-perl       2.26-1     module to determine modules shippe
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                  0.71-1     YAML Ain't Markup Language
ii  make                          3.81-7     An utility for Directing compilati
ii  perl                          5.10.1-11  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-corel 5.10.1-11  Core Perl modules

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file                      2.3.3      search for files within Debian pac

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

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