[kgb-maintainers] Bug#582739: kgb-bot: FTBFS with Perl 5.12.1: Invalid version format (fractional part required)

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

kgb-bot also fails in unstable when libversion-perl is installed.  A
simple workaround is to remove SVN::Core from the list of required
module in Build.PL (libsvn-web-perl does this as well).

I think both Module::Build and SVN::Core should be improved to avoid
these problems:

Module::Build should not die if there is no versioned dependency and the
version number it finds seems to be invalid.  I filed a bug on CPAN for
this [1].

SVN::Core should provide a $VERSION assignment that follows the
conventions of the Perl community (ie. the complete computation of
$VERSION must take place on the one first line within the module that
assigns to it [2]).  I filed a bug in Debian for this [3].

Regards,
Ansgar

[1] <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=59593>
[2] <http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#conventions>
[3] <http://bugs.debian.org/589812>