Bug#958721: perlbug and github

[Niko Tyni]

Package: perl
Version: 5.28.1-6
Severity: normal
Tags: buster fixed-upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17197
Control: found -1 5.30.0-10

The upstream tool to submit bug reports, /usr/bin/perlbug, does not
currently work as advertised since upstream has moved from rt.perl.org
to github.com/Perl/perl5 . It send the report to the old bug submission
address perlbug at perl.org, which (I believe) nowadays gives an autoresponse
suggesting to file a GitHub issue instead.

Upstream has recently addressed this: 5.30.2 has

 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/b9e2183386fadc0979b46e024365ceab56a369aa

removing references to perlbug, and upcoming 5.31.11 will have

 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/31fa749cfc50ff7f2bde2237bf6da5547efd53d4

which modifies the perlbug tool to save its output to a file and direct
users to the GitHub issue tracker. The upstream issue at

 https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17197

has the full discussion.

While I expect this will be fixed in Debian bullseye by upgrading to 5.32,
we should probably do something about stable too.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org