Bug#1040377: libmime-tools-perl: spurious warning with Perl 5.38

[Niko Tyni]

Package: libmime-tools-perl
Version: 5.510-1
Severity: normal
Tags: trixie sid
User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.38-transition

The MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint module throws a warning on usage
with Perl 5.38 (currently in experimental):

  $ perl -w -e 'use MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint'
  Argument "3.16_01" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/share/perl5/MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm line 76.

This is because Perl core includes MIME::QuotedPrint at version 3.16_01,
and MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint has this:

   # The following code is horrible.  I know.  Beat me up. --dfs
   BEGIN {
       if (!defined(&encode_qp_threearg)) {
           if ($::MIME::QuotedPrint::VERSION >= 3.03) {
               eval 'sub encode_qp_threearg ( $$$ ) { encode_qp(shift, shift, shift); }';
           } else {
               eval 'sub encode_qp_threearg ( $$$ ) { encode_qp(shift); }';
           }
       }
   }
 
Looks like the version check needs to be changed to handle non-numeric
version strings.

This is breaking the test suites of (at least) request-tracker4 and
request-tracker5, which check for warnings.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org