On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:35:16 +0200, Hagen Fuchs wrote: > Package: libcommon-sense-perl > Version: 3.72-1 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > I just noticed that, upon upgrading to Perl 5.18.1-3 (Debian testing), > common::sense stopped having some: > > $ perl -Mcommon::sense -e 'say "hi";' > syntax error at -e line 1, near "say "hi"" > Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
I can confirm this behaviour.
> On another machine with Perl 5.14 still installed and the same version
> of libcommon-sense-perl (3.72-1) it's still the same friendly response:
>
> $ perl -Mcommon::sense -e 'say "hi";'
> hi
Confirmed (on a stable machine with common-sense 3.6-1 and perl
5.14.2.)
> So, *something* happened upon upgrading, although I'm currently at a
> loss (of time, mainly) to specify what exactly. Surely I messed
> something up and everything's working fine for everybody else?
I rebuilt common-sense now in unstable; as expected, the contents of
the resulting /usr/lib/perl5/common/sense.pm changes:
Before (as: in the package, built with 5.14 in August):
#v+
package common::sense;
our $VERSION = 3.72;
# overload should be included
sub import {
local $^W; # work around perl 5.16 spewing out warnings for next statement
# use warnings
${^WARNING_BITS} ^= ${^WARNING_BITS} ^
"\x3c\x3f\x33\x00\x0f\xf0\x0f\xc0\xf0\xfc\x33\x00\x00";
# use strict, use utf8; use feature;
$^H |= 0x820f00;
@^H{qw(feature_unicode feature_say feature_state feature_switch)} = (1) x 4;
}
1
#v-
After:
#v+
package common::sense;
our $VERSION = 3.72;
# overload should be included
sub import {
local $^W; # work around perl 5.16 spewing out warnings for next statement
# use warnings
${^WARNING_BITS} ^= ${^WARNING_BITS} ^
"\x3c\x3f\x33\x00\x0f\xf0\x0f\xc0\xf0\xfc\x33\x00\x00\x00";
# use strict, use utf8; use feature;
$^H |= 0x1c820fc0;
@^H{qw(feature_state feature_fc feature___SUB__ feature_switch feature_say
feature_evalbytes feature_unicode)} = (1) x 7;
}
1
#v-
But feature_say is, also as expected, there in both cases. Hm.
If I install the rebuilt package:
% perl -Mcommon::sense -e 'say "hi";'
hi
Oh.
Seems we
- need to set lower and upper bounds of the perl version in Depends (not
only the lower, as it's now)
- hope that all buildds have perl 5.18 when we upload the fixed
package by now or request binNMUs with a dep-wait on perl 5.18.1-x
- add it to our mental list of packages that needs rebuilds on new
perl releases
I've committed the changes for the first point; reviews welcome!
Cheers,
gregor
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