[Debconf-devel] Bug#821742: Bug#821742: deprecated features in Quesion.pm and Config.pm

[Colin Watson]

Source: debconf
Source-Version: 1.5.57

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:57:38AM +0200, Jaakov wrote:
> Package: debconf
> Version: 1.5.56
> 
> Looks like updating perl broke debconf:
[...]
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked
> by <-- HERE in m/^(.*?)(\\)?\${ <-- HERE ([^{}]+)}(.*)$/ at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 72.
> Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked
> by <-- HERE in m/\${ <-- HERE ([^}]+)}/ at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 30.

It's fortunately only a noisy deprecation warning rather than actual
breakage, and I fixed it nine months ago in debconf 1.5.57.  See:

  https://bugs.debian.org/786705

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]