Bug#731365: perl: regex makes other packages FTBFS, patch available

[Roland Stigge]

Package: perl
Version: 5.18.1-4
Severity: serious
Tags: patch

Hi,

in #723913 (see http://bugs.debian.org/723913) it turned out that FTBFS of
latex2html and some packages FTBFSing (condor, starlink-ast) could be traced
back to perl.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978233

suggests that perl's upstream commit f1e1b256c5c1773d90e828cca6323c53fa23391b
fixes this.

I tested this and it works. :-)

Attaching the adjusted patch that applies to Debian's 5.18.1-4.

Thanks to Tim Theisen for digging this out.

Roland


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpcspe (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 3.9.0-dirty (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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