[Debian-zh-dev] Bug#871818: debian-zh-faq FTBFS with perl 5.26

[Adrian Bunk]

Source: debian-zh-faq
Version: 1.13
Severity: serious
Tags: buster sid

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/amd64/debian-zh-faq.html

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# For LaTeX
./tocn.pl < debian-zh-faq.zh_CN.tex.tmp \
	> debian-zh-faq.zh_CN.tex
./tocn.pl < debian-zh-faq.en.tex.tmp \
	> debian-zh-faq.en.tex
autob5 < debian-zh-faq.zh_TW.tex.tmp | ./totw.pl | ./totw_zhe.pl \
	> debian-zh-faq.zh_TW.tex
Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/�A�ȵ{ <-- HERE ��/ at ./totw.pl line 39.
# For LaTeX2HTML
./tohtml.pl < debian-zh-faq.zh_CN.tex.tmp | ./tocn.pl \
	> debian-zh-faq-zh_CN-html.tex
./tohtml.pl < debian-zh-faq.en.tex.tmp | ./tocn.pl \
	> debian-zh-faq-en-html.tex
./tohtml.pl < debian-zh-faq.zh_TW.tex.tmp | autob5 | ./totw.pl \
	| ./totw_zhe_html.pl > debian-zh-faq-zh_TW-html.tex
Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/�A�ȵ{ <-- HERE ��/ at ./totw.pl line 39.
...


The error where the build stops later is caused by the
debian-zh-faq.zh_TW.tex created here being empty.