Bug#636132: libsignatures-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.14: Failed test 'signatures parse in eval'

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 01:24:54PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> This package FTBFS with perl 5.14:
> 
> #   Failed test 'signatures parse in eval'
> #   at t/eval.t line 8.
> # forced to realloc PL_linestr for line use signatures;sub foo ($bar) { $bar }
> # ;, bailing out before we crash harder at /build/dom-libsignatures-perl_0.05-1+b2-i386-TwSmvh/libsignatures-perl-0.05/blib/lib/signatures.pm line 87.
> Undefined subroutine &main::foo called at t/eval.t line 11.
> # Looks like you planned 8 tests but ran 2.
> # Looks like you failed 1 test of 2 run.
> # Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 2.
> 
> This is
> <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=66997>

There seems to be no fix upstream at the moment. I note that there
are no reverse-depends for this, so I wonder whether it is needed in
Debian. Ryan, what was the use-case you had in mind for this module?

Cheers,
Dominic.

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