Bug#681026: perl-modules: Installation of modules via CPAN fails due to broken dependency logic

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2013-03-30 01:19:43 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> When I tried to replicate this problem I got a test failure instead.
> The same test failure, in fact, that you reported at
> 
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=83881
> 
> This doesn't appear to be a bug in the Debian package. If there is an
> unrelated problem which causes the package to not be installable and
> which *is* a bug in Debian, please let us know.

Yes, with the new version, it is a bug in the module or in the
base-files Debian package, as the parsing of /etc/os-release fails.

But the previous Sys::Info::Driver::Linux version triggers the bug
in Debian's CPAN.pm:

  https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77638

When I tried again after removing the modules, I installed upstream's
CPAN.pm (since there was a new version), and the bug didn't occur with
it:

  cpan -i CPAN
  cpan -i BURAK/Sys-Info-Driver-Linux-0.7900.tar.gz

was fine.

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