Bug#886363: libdatetime-locale-perl: After upgrade from Jessie to Stretch, Can't locate DateTime/Locale/en_US.pm in @INC

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:51:21 +0100, Reiner Buehl wrote:

> after upgrading my system from Jessie to Stretch, I get the
> following error messages from a perl skript that used to work fine
> before the upgrade:
> 
> Can't locate DateTime/Locale/en_US.pm in @INC (you may need to install the DateTime::Locale::en_US module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl/5.24.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.24.1 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl5/5.24 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl/5.24 /usr/share/perl/5.24 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl/5.24/Storable.pm line 389, <DATA> line 1.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted, <DATA> line 1, at /home/reiner/bin/FollowTwitterStream.pl line 24.

Could you please show us how you use DateTime::Locale in your script?
 

The upstream changelog shows some thing around en_US and en-US but I
can't reproduce the problem in my quick naïve try:

% perl -MDateTime::Locale -E '$locale = DateTime::Locale->load("en-US"); say $locale->native_name;' 
English United States
% perl -MDateTime::Locale -E '$locale = DateTime::Locale->load("en_US"); say $locale->native_name;' 
English United States


And regarding your error message about a missing
"DateTime/Locale/en_US.pm":

/usr/share/perl5/DateTime/Locale/en_US.pm has indeed existed some
versions ago, then the whole thing has been restructured; cf. the
section "0.90     2015-09-27" in
/usr/share/doc/libdatetime-locale-perl/changelog.gz.


So my suspicion is that you are using what is called the "old API" in
the upstream changelog and need to update your script.


Cheers,
gregor

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