Bug#767960: gitweb: no longer works: Undefined subroutine CGI::startform

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Tue Mar 10 08:59:09 UTC 2015


Quoting Carl Worth (2015-03-10 01:17:26)
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 00:10:28 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:29:18 -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > 
> > > > Just shout as soon as we should upload.
> > > 1:2.1.3-1 which is now in sid has the fix, so it should be safe to
> > > upload.
> > 
> > Great, thanks.
> > 
> > I've uploaded libcgi-pm-perl 4.09-2 right now.
> 
> I'm still having trouble with this.
> 
> I currently have the following installed:
> 
>         gitweb 1:2.1.4-2.1
>         libcgi-pm-perl 4.03-1
> 
> and gitweb is working fine.
> 
> But if I run "apt-get upgrade" on sid, it installs libcgi-pm-perl 4.09-2
> and gitweb no longer works, (it hits the "Undefined subroutine
> CGI::startform" error described above).
> 
> I don't know what the expected fix in git/gitweb 1:2.1.3-1 was, but it
> seems that given the current state of gitweb that the current Breaks in
> libcgi-pm-perl is not adequate:
> 
>         Breaks: git (<< 1:2.1.3)

Sounds like it needs to adapt to changes to recent libcgi-pm-perl: 
rename startform → start_form and endform → end_form.

 - Jonas

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