libdistro-info-perl software package provides information about distributions releases (Perl module), you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libdistro-info-perl
libdistro-info-perl is installed in your system.
Make ensure the libdistro-info-perl package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep libdistro-info-perl *
You will get with libdistro-info-perl package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Perl |
| Package | libdistro-info-perl |
| Version | 0.14 |
| Description | information about distributions releases (Perl module) |
| Sub Section | Perl |