Bug#730229: libmodule-starter-perl: $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION is not numeric in numeric ge

[Dennis van Dok]

Package: libmodule-starter-perl
Version: 1.580+dfsg-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch

When starting a fresh module with MakeMaker e.g. with

 module-starter --module Test -eumm --author "John Doe" --email "jdoe at example.com"

The Makefile.PL contains a test:

    ($ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION >= 6.3002
      ? ('LICENSE'=> 'perl')
      : ()),


However, the $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION is a string '6.57_05'.

When running

 perl Makefile.PL

it prints an error:

 Argument "6.57_05" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at Makefile.PL line 6.

The solution is to use Revision instead of VERSION.

I'll attach a patch. It doesn't seem to affect the generated Makefile on my
system.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.10-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libmodule-starter-perl depends on:
ii  libpath-class-perl  0.26-1
ii  perl                5.14.2-21+deb7u1

libmodule-starter-perl recommends no packages.

libmodule-starter-perl suggests no packages.

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