Bug#975998: licensecheck: Fails with a Perl problem

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Rock,

Quoting Rock Storm (2020-12-13 18:12:52)
> Control: severity -1 important
[...]
> I've raised the severity of this bug because it renders the program 
> unusable (and it probably should be 'grave' instead). I'm not able to 
> check any files due to this.

Severity "important" is accurate: It reflects affect globally, not 
locally on a single setup.  That's a common confusion - I did that too 
myself in the past, until I manage to wrap my mind around the concept.


> Current status of 'perl-modules':
> 
> $ dpkg -l | grep perl-modules
> ii  perl-modules-5.24  5.24.1-3+deb9u5  all  Core Perl modules
> ii  perl-modules-5.32  5.32.0-5         all  Core Perl modules
> 
> As suggested, installing 'libpod-parser-perl' version 1.63-2 solves 
> the issue. So maybe 'licensecheck' should depend on it before it 
> migrates to stable?

It should also work to remove perl-modules-5.24.

I don't think this is a bug in licensecheck but in perl itself, 
somewhere.  I'll leave it to others more experts in the inner workings 
of perl packaging to resolve where...


Thanks for contributing to this bugreport,

 - Jonas

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