Bug#797289: libxml-easyobj-perl: FTBFS: Can't locate object method "getXMLDecl" via package "XML::DOM::Element"

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 11:06:20PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Control: tag -1 sid stretch
> 
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 10:38:43AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Source: libxml-easyobj-perl
> > Version: 1.12-3
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: FTBFS
> > 
> > This package FTBFS in a clean sid chroot:
> > 
> > Can't locate object method "getXMLDecl" via package "XML::DOM::Element" at /usr/
> > share/perl5/XML/DOM.pm line 1221.
> > t/write.t ..... 
> 
> This was apparently broken by libxml-dom-perl 1.44-2, which added 
> debian/patches/output_encoding.patch . Now that the patch was
> integrated upstream in XML-DOM-1.45, it's probably failing upstream
> too. 

Confirmed; there's an upstream bug
<https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=108867>
for this as well.

> Not sure if XML::EasyObj is doing something nasty or if > printing
out XML::DOM::Element objects is broken for everybody...

There's been no reaction on the upstream bug, and the last upstream
release was in 2002. There are no reverse dependencies. I suggest
removal unless somebody objects?
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org