Bug#568994: "Unknown encoding 'unicode-1-1-utf-7'", update Encode.pm

[Niko Tyni]

# housekeeping
close 568994 5.10.1-1
tag 568994 lenny
forwarded 568994 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=38558
thanks

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 11:00:48AM +0100, Marc Beyer wrote:

> This is due to a missing alias unicode-1-1-utf-7 for utf7 . See the CPAN
> bug #38558 (http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=38558). This
> bug is fixed in Encode.pm version 2.27, the current version of Encode.pm
> in perl-modules is 2.23. As this is a bug that occurs on an existing
> production platform, I suggest that the version for Encode.pm in
> perl-modules/lenny be bumped up to at least 2.27

Thanks for the report.

I don't think this is quite enough to warrant a stable update by itself,
but I'll try to include the fix if we are going to have one anyway.

Meanwhile, I suggest you install a newer Encode version from CPAN 
under /usr/local.

As for bumping the whole Encode.pm to a newer version: the rules for
a stable update in Debian are quite strict and the fixes need to be
minimal, so we'd need to cherry pick the relevant fix alone. In this case
that seems to be easy though.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org