Bug#710843: libmath-symbolic-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.18: POD

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Source: libmath-symbolic-perl
Version: 0.606-1
Severity: important
User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.18-transition
Tags: sid jessie fixed-upstream
Forwarded: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=79034

This package FTBFS with perl 5.18 from experimental (in a clean sbuild
session):

#   Failed test 'POD test for blib/lib/Math/Symbolic.pm'
#   at /usr/share/perl5/Test/Distribution.pm line 144.
# blib/lib/Math/Symbolic.pm (560): Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 
'M<FC>ller,'. Assuming ISO8859-1

#   Failed test 'POD test for blib/lib/Math/Symbolic/VectorCalculus.pm'
#   at /usr/share/perl5/Test/Distribution.pm line 144.
# blib/lib/Math/Symbolic/VectorCalculus.pm (788): Non-ASCII character seen befor
e =encoding in 'M<FC>ller,'. Assuming ISO8859-1

#   Failed test 'POD test for blib/lib/Math/Symbolic/MiscAlgebra.pm'
#   at /usr/share/perl5/Test/Distribution.pm line 144.
# blib/lib/Math/Symbolic/MiscAlgebra.pm (272): Non-ASCII character seen before =
encoding in 'M<FC>ller,'. Assuming ISO8859-1

#   Failed test 'POD test for blib/lib/Math/Symbolic/Constant.pm'
#   at /usr/share/perl5/Test/Distribution.pm line 144.
# blib/lib/Math/Symbolic/Constant.pm (285): Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in 'M<FC>ller,'. Assuming ISO8859-1

...

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/00dist.t             (Wstat: 4864 Tests: 65 Failed: 19)
  Failed tests:  42-60
  Non-zero exit status: 19
t/00pod.t              (Wstat: 4864 Tests: 20 Failed: 19)
  Failed tests:  1-19
  Non-zero exit status: 19
Files=26, Tests=542, 10 wallclock secs ( 0.20 usr  0.11 sys +  9.08 cusr  0.34 csys =  9.73 CPU)
Result: FAIL

This is probably fixed upstream in 0.609 (it's probably worth sending a
note to https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=79034 to point
this out once verified).

Dominic.

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