Package: dh-make-perl Version: 0.103 dh-make-perl gives quite outdated recommendations and suggests to run "dselect update" (!)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
