Bug#780351: libforks-perl: Version check on Storable broken when version number is not numeric

[Damyan Ivanov]

Control: tags -1 upstream patch

-=| Patrik Wallstrom, 12.03.2015 15:21:50 +0100 |=-
> Package: libforks-perl
> Version: 0.36-1+b1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Line 1570 on forks.pm has this:
> 
>     local $Storable::Deparse = 1 if $Storable::VERSION >= 2.05;
> 
> So I get the following problem on use:
> 
> expo$~>perl -Mforks
> Argument "2.49_01" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/forks.pm line 1570.
> 
> Since the version apparantly is 2.49_01 and not 2.49, which means that this version of forks is not usable right now.

The last sentence seems to contradict with the bug severity. Can you 
elaborate on libforks-perl usability?

Anyway, the attached patch seems to fix the comparison:

 $ perl -Ilib -Mforks -e1
 $
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