Bug#975998: licensecheck: Fails with a Perl problem

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 11:25:25PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Package: licensecheck
> Version: 3.0.47-1
> Severity: normal
 
> 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.

Hi, thanks for the report. This doesn't seem to occur for me in a
clean sid chroot. Is yours an older one that has been upgraded? Do you
happen to have an old perl-modules-5.24 package lying around in both?
Is libpod-parser-perl installed?

I'm guessing this might be similar to #972322 and we need to do something
about it on the src:perl side.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org