in reply to I am not a META.yml expert.....

It may be lag, or CPANTS YAML module is too old
$ wget http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SILASMONK/Test-Regression-0.03/M +ETA.yml $ perl -MDDS -mYAML -le'Dump( YAML::LoadFile( shift))' META.yml $HASH1 = { abstract => 'Test library that can be run in two modes: o +nce to generate outputs and secondly to compare against them', author => [ 'Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>' +], build_requires => { "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" => 0 }, configure_requires => { "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" => 0 }, distribution_type => 'module', generated_by => 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.54', license => 'perl', "meta-spec" => { url => 'http://module-build.sourceforge +.net/META-spec-v1.4.html', version => 1.4 }, name => 'Test-Regression', no_index => { directory => [ 't', 'inc' ] }, requires => { "Algorithm::Diff" => 0, "Test::Differences" => 0, "Test::More" => 0, "Text::Diff" => 0 }, version => 0.03 }; $ pmvers YAML 0.70