Bug#954998: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: cme edit dpkg does not start

[Ryan Pavlik]

Package: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
Version: 2.122
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Recently, I have had cme edit dpkg stop working on my Buster system, which is mostly clean,
with some use of buster-backports. This seemed to occur in conjunction with an update in which 
lintian was upgraded - lintian (2.59.0~bpo10+1) over (2.55.0~bpo10+1). However, downgrading
(to 2.57~bpo10+1 at least) did not resolve it, so perhaps it was something unrelated.
(the only other possibly-related update in that batch was libicu63/libicu-dev.)

The error message I get, no matter the package I run it on, is:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Single parameters to new() must be a HASH ref data => debian at /usr/share/perl5/Config/Model/Dpkg/Control/Source/StandardVersion.pm line 15.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Config/Model/Node.pm line 247, <F> line 84.

I have in the past attempted to backport newer versions of this package and its deps,
but as it introduced a number of dependencies I was unfamiliar with, I did give up rather quickly,
and I don't believe I have any of them installed.

Thanks for any help.

Ryan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libconfig-model-dpkg-perl depends on:
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                    0.1.34+b1
ii  libarray-intspan-perl              2.003-1
ii  libconfig-model-backend-yaml-perl  2.133-2
ii  libconfig-model-perl               2.133-1
ii  libexporter-lite-perl              0.08-1
ii  liblog-log4perl-perl               1.49-1
ii  libmouse-perl                      2.5.6-1+b1
ii  libparse-recdescent-perl           1.967015+dfsg-2
ii  libsoftware-licensemoreutils-perl  1.004-1
ii  libtext-autoformat-perl            1.740000-2
ii  libtext-levenshtein-damerau-perl   0.41-1
ii  liburi-perl                        1.76-1
ii  libwww-perl                        6.36-2
ii  libyaml-perl                       1.27-1
ii  licensecheck                       3.0.31-3
ii  lintian                            2.57.0~bpo10+1
ii  perl [libmodule-corelist-perl]     5.28.1-6

Versions of packages libconfig-model-dpkg-perl recommends:
ii  libconfig-model-tkui-perl  1.369-2

libconfig-model-dpkg-perl suggests no packages.

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