Bug#861952: libcgi-validop-perl: FTBFS on May 1st (?)

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 06 May 2017 11:30:00 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:

> I looked at the code[1] and it has:
> 
> >             # Normlize
> >             # Unless we are checking the present or yesterday, assume the biggest day of the month is 28
> >             my $maxday = (
> >                 $time eq 'present' or  
> >                 ( $time eq 'past' and $vector eq 'day' )
> >             ) ? 31 : 28;
> 
> Take the branch that leads to "31" and then:
> 
> > [...]
> >             if ( $vectors->{ day } < 1 ) {
> >                 $vectors->{ day } = $maxday;
> >                 $vectors->{ month }--;
> >             }
> 
> Which looks like it would get this wrong for all months with < 31 days
> in them on the yesterday.  I have tagged it stretch-ignore, but I am
> happy to consider a fix for stretch.

Additional data:
- popcon vote: 0
- reverse dependencies: 0
- last release: 2009 or 2010
- not on metacpan; search.cpan.org has only older version.
  http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-ValidOp/

So we might as well remove this package ...


Cheers,
gregor

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