Bug#975998: licensecheck: Fails with a Perl problem

[Rock Storm]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 06:29:58PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Rock Storm (2020-12-13 18:12:52)
> > 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.

Sorry I should've included this information on the first e-mail. I tried
to remove 'perl-modules-5.24' as suggested but attempting to do so
automatically removes 'licensecheck'. So I discarded this option.

$ apt remove -s perl-modules-5.24
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libarray-intspan-perl libarray-unique-perl libconfig-any-perl
  libconfig-general-perl libdebian-copyright-perl libexporter-lite-perl
  libfile-mmagic-perl libfile-slurp-perl libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl
  libhash-fieldhash-perl liblist-someutils-perl liblist-someutils-xs-perl
  libmoox-struct-perl libnumber-range-perl libobject-id-perl
  libparse-debcontrol-perl libparse-debianchangelog-perl
  libpath-iterator-rule-perl libre-engine-re2-perl libre2-9
  libregexp-pattern-license-perl libregexp-pattern-perl libset-intspan-perl
  libsmart-comments-perl libsort-key-perl libstring-copyright-perl
  libstring-escape-perl libuniversal-require-perl libxml-simple-perl
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libpod-constants-perl license-reconcile licensecheck perl-modules-5.24
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Remv license-reconcile [0.17]
Remv licensecheck [3.0.47-1]
Remv libpod-constants-perl [0.19-2]
Remv perl-modules-5.24 [5.24.1-3+deb9u5]


> Thanks for contributing to this bugreport,

Thank you all for supporting Debian! :)

Regards,

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