diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index dab62511a554..9aa71d4beb19 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -2078,14 +2078,14 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     };
   };
 
-  CPANMetaYAML = buildPerlPackage {
-    name = "CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.012";
+  CPANMetaYAML = buildPerlPackage rec {
+    name = "CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.016";
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.012.tar.gz;
-      sha256 = "7c728c573ba74294d3df2f0cbae2cd1b3830ed47040649b49a33a086b8300d28";
+      url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/D/DA/DAGOLDEN/${name}.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "195v3lrfjzqxfiqi1zp02xmhp6mg9y3p7abmlfk2nj1rb28p0yrl";
     };
     buildInputs = [ JSONPP ];
-    doCheck = false; # Test::More too old
+    doCheck = true;
     meta = {
       homepage = https://github.com/dagolden/CPAN-Meta-YAML;
       description = "Read and write a subset of YAML for CPAN Meta files";