Bug#558272: Date::Calc::Decode_Month(): argument is not a string

[Vincent Lefevre]

severity 558272 grave
thanks

I'm raising the severity because of the urgency and to make sure
that this bug (an important regression vs lenny, that has been
fixed in a new upstream bugfix release for 9 months) is noticed
soon enough for squeeze. See other comments below.

On 2009-11-27 17:11:01 +0200, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Seems to be fixed in 6.3 upstream release, which is half-prepared in 
> group's SVN repository.
> 
> TODO from there:
>   - add libdate-calc-xs-perl to B-D-I -- or not, because
>   - t/f000.t checks the version of libdate-calc-xs-perl and errors out 
>     if it's different - might lead to problems if an older version is 
>     installed (libdate-calc-xs-perl seems to depend on 
>     libdate-calc-perl >= its own version)
>   - Q: what does "United "Date::Calc" and "Date::Pcalc" into a single 
>     distribution" (and the changelog entry below) tell us? we have 
>     also libdate-pcalc-perl

Any news? Date-Calc-6.3 was released on October 31, 2009. FYI, the
latest upstream releases were:

Date-Calc-6.0 on 2009-10-08 (currently in Debian/testing)
Date-Calc-6.1 on 2009-10-16
Date-Calc-6.2 on 2009-10-16
Date-Calc-6.3 on 2009-10-31

The fact that the releases up to 6.3 are close enough (less than a
month between them) seems to imply that they are bugfix releases,
and the fact that there have not been releases since 6.3 is probably
because version 6.3 is quite stable.

In this context, even though Squeeze is frozen, I think that
version 6.3 should go to Squeeze.

Note: this also requires an upgrade of libcarp-clan-perl to
Carp::Clan 6.04 for about the same reasons; versions 6.02 and
6.03 have even been removed from CPAN. Not sure whether the
licensing problem 6.04 solves is the cause:

  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=50796

(FYI, I'm still stuck with the old libdate-calc-perl 5.4-5+b1 under
Debian/unstable, because of this bug, even though I've tested that
Date::Calc 6.3 from CPAN works.)

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