Bug#1102409: dh-make-perl: trying to execute dh-make-perl --recursive --cpan Net::SSH::Perl leads me to an error

[gregor herrmann]

Control: reassign -1 dh-make-perl 0.122

On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 18:55:13 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

>> > illegal backslash escape sequence in string, at character offset 137 (before "\\@cpan.org>"\n   ],...") at /usr/share/perl/5.36/Parse/CPAN/Meta.pm line 57.
>> > at /usr/share/perl/5.36/CPAN/Meta.pm line 301.
>> > at /usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm line 218.
>>
>> This parsing error, caused by an invalid upstream META.{json,yaml} file,
>> happens in Parse::CPAN::Meta, which comes with perl.
>
>I see dh-make-perl unconditionally calls CPAN::Meta->load_file() which is
>documented to "die if the deserialized version fails to validate against
>its stated specification version."

Ok …

>It seems to me that dh-make-perl needs to add exception handling.
>Gregor, could you please reassign back if you agree?

… that's a good point indeed, thank you.


Cheers,
gregor

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