Bug#710038: FTBFS with perl 5.18.0 from experimental

[Roderich Schupp]

Package: gucharmap
Version: 1:3.8.2-1
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Building with perl 5.18.0 installed results in:

....
cd gucharmap && ./gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl 6.1.0 /usr/share/unicode
syntax error at ./gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl line 377, near "kTang kKorean
kJapaneseKun kJapaneseOn)"
  (Might be a runaway multi-line () string starting on line 376)
Global symbol "$f" requires explicit package name at ./gen-guch-unicode-
tables.p
l line 379.
....
syntax error at ./gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl line 413, near "}"
../gen-guch-unicode-tables.pl has too many errors.
make: *** [debian/stamp-gen-unicode-tables] Error 255
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
Command exited with non-zero status 2

Reason are "for" statements (on lines 376 and 426 of gen-guch-unicode-
tables.pl)
that iterate over a qw() list, but omit the parentheses around them.
This drew a deprecation warning in perl 5.16 and is an error in 5.18
(cf.
http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.18.0/pod/perldelta.pod#qw%28...%29_can_no_longer_be_used_as_parentheses).

Patch attached (simply add parentheses).

Cheers, Roderich



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gucharmap depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.16.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.8.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.17-3
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.14-4
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.36.1-2build1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.8.2-1
ii  libgucharmap-2-90-7                          1:3.8.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.32.5-5
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.32.5-5

Versions of packages gucharmap recommends:
ii  yelp  3.6.1-1

gucharmap suggests no packages.

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