Package: dist
Version: 1:3.5-236-1.1
Severity: normal
User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.40-transition
X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@packages.debian.org
Apologies for the rather late report, but metaconfig
in the dist package issues lots of warnings since
we upgraded to Perl 5.40.
On current sid we get 298 warnings just with:
$ metaconfig
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/metaconfig line 101.
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/metaconfig line 101.
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/metaconfig line 102.
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/metaconfig line 102.
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/metaconfig line 104.
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/metaconfig line 104.
Old package separator "'" deprecated at /usr/bin/metaconfig line 105.
[...]
This looks unfortunately onerous to fix.
In `perldoc perldeprecation` there's this:
Use of "'" as a global name separator
Perl allows use of "'" instead of "::" to replace the parts of a package
or global variable name, for example "A::B" and "A'B" are equivalent.
"'" will no longer be recognized as a name separator in Perl 5.42.
but I believe the approach is being reconsidered, see
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/22644
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/22675
Filing a bug to track this in any case.
--
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
