Bug#975998: licensecheck: Fails with a Perl problem

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Package: licensecheck
Version: 3.0.47-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

this might not be licensecheck's fault but maybe is related to the
recent perl transition. But given I don't know much about Perl, I'm
reporting against licensecheck.

For all invokations of licensecheck I encounter:

	uwe at taurus:~$ licensecheck
	Base class package "Pod::Parser" is empty.
	    (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first,
	    or make that module available in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.32.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.32 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32 /usr/share/perl/5.32 /usr/local/lib/site_perl).
	 at /usr/share/perl5/Pod/Constants.pm line 7.
	BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Pod/Constants.pm line 7.
	Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/licensecheck line 14.
	BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/licensecheck line 14.

This is on a machine that runs a mix of testing and unstable, but I can
reproduce this problem on a sid chroot.

Best regards
Uwe

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (700, 'stable-updates'), (700, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable'), (499, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages licensecheck depends on:
ii  libarray-intspan-perl                  2.004-1
ii  libgetopt-long-descriptive-perl        0.105-1
ii  liblist-someutils-perl                 0.58-1
ii  liblog-any-adapter-screen-perl         0.140-1
ii  liblog-any-perl                        1.708-1
ii  libmoo-perl                            2.004003-1
ii  libmoox-struct-perl                    0.020-1
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl                0.27-1
ii  libpath-iterator-rule-perl             1.014-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl                      0.114-1
ii  libpod-constants-perl                  0.19-2
ii  libre-engine-re2-perl                  0.13-5+b4
ii  libregexp-pattern-license-perl         3.4.0-1
ii  libregexp-pattern-perl                 0.2.14-1
ii  libscalar-list-utils-perl              1:1.55-1+b1
ii  libsort-key-perl                       1.33-2+b3
ii  libstrictures-perl                     2.000006-1
ii  libstring-copyright-perl               0.003006-1
ii  libstring-escape-perl                  2010.002-2
ii  libtry-tiny-perl                       0.30-1
ii  perl                                   5.32.0-5
ii  perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl]  5.32.0-5

licensecheck recommends no packages.

Versions of packages licensecheck suggests:
ii  bash-completion  1:2.11-2

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