Bug#593000: dh-make-perl: shadowed newer File::Fetch vs requiredeps

[Kevin Ryde]

Package: dh-make-perl
Version: 0.70-1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/dh-make-perl

I built File::Fetch 0.24 (with dh-make-perl) and installed it as a newer
version than in perl 5.10.1.  Then doing dh-make-perl --requiredeps on
Alien::SDL complained that File::Fetch 0.24 was not available.

The Contents.cache created ended up with "perl-modules".  As usual this
is with my own apt-file-from-installed, so it's possible it's my own
doing, but the apt-file bit has both libfile-fetch-perl and perl-modules
entries for File/Fetch.pm.  I hoped dh-make-perl might notice the former
is a newer version than the latter and prefer that one (or prefer it if
--requiredeps does need newer than in perl itself, etc).

I suspect Alien::SDL is not really suitable for dh-make-perl to build,
so it may not be a good example, but it seems like a general problem.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486
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                     8.0.0      helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.8.3   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  libdpkg-perl                  1.15.8.3   Dpkg perl modules
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       2.36-1     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 1.1.1-2.1  parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtie-ixhash-perl            1.21-2     ordered associative arrays for Per
ii  libwww-mechanize-perl         1.64-1     module to automate interaction wit
ii  libyaml-perl                  0.71-1     YAML Ain't Markup Language
ii  make                          3.81-8     An utility for Directing compilati
ii  perl                          5.10.1-14  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-corel 5.10.1-14  Core Perl modules

Versions of packages dh-make-perl recommends:
ii  apt-file                      2.4.0      search for files within Debian pac

dh-make-perl suggests no packages.

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