Bug#661700: libyaml-perl: Accepts invalid YAML.

[Charles Plessy]

Package: libyaml-perl
Version: 0.80-1
Severity: normal

Dear Perl team,

libyaml-perl accepts invalid YAML that is rejected by most other parsers (not
only Perl ones).  I am not sure if it is a bug or a feature, hence the normal
severity, but please do not hesitate to raise it if you agree with me that this
behaviour is strange.

  $ echo 'toto: toto: toto' |  perl -MYAML     -e '$/="";  Load(<STDIN>)'
  $ echo 'toto: toto: toto' |  perl -MYAML::XS -e '$/="";  Load(<STDIN>)'
  YAML::XS::Load Error: The problem:
  
      mapping values are not allowed in this context
  
  was found at document: 1, line: 1, column: 11

Cheers,

-- Charles Plessy, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (910, 'stable'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libyaml-perl depends on:
ii  perl  5.14.2-7

Versions of packages libyaml-perl recommends:
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl  0.38-1
ii  libyaml-syck-perl     1.20-1

Versions of packages libyaml-perl suggests:
ii  libyaml-shell-perl  0.60-1

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