Bug#681026: perl-modules: Installation of modules via CPAN fails due to broken dependency logic

[Dominic Hargreaves]

severity 681026 normal
thanks

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 02:37:30AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2013-03-30 01:19:43 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > When I tried to replicate this problem I got a test failure instead.
> > The same test failure, in fact, that you reported at
> > 
> > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=83881
> > 
> > This doesn't appear to be a bug in the Debian package. If there is an
> > unrelated problem which causes the package to not be installable and
> > which *is* a bug in Debian, please let us know.
> 
> Yes, with the new version, it is a bug in the module or in the
> base-files Debian package, as the parsing of /etc/os-release fails.
> 
> But the previous Sys::Info::Driver::Linux version triggers the bug
> in Debian's CPAN.pm:
> 
>   https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77638
> 
> When I tried again after removing the modules, I installed upstream's
> CPAN.pm (since there was a new version), and the bug didn't occur with
> it:
> 
>   cpan -i CPAN
>   cpan -i BURAK/Sys-Info-Driver-Linux-0.7900.tar.gz
> 
> was fine.

cpan -i BURAK/Sys-Info-Driver-Linux-0.7900.tar.gz

works fine the first time for me, so I think this must be something
specific to your setup.

I'm downgrading the severity to normal since the 'could not install,
even on the second go' for you appeared to be the upstream test failure.

Dominic.

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