Bug#779510: dpkg: can no longer extract source packages, missing Depends on Tie::Handle?

[Guillem Jover]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: reassign -1 perl-modules
Control: forcemerge 779433 -1

Hi!

On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 17:46:07 +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Source: dpkg
> Version: 1.17.24
> Severity: grave
> Justification: breaks source extraction, and thus, further package build

> I: Extracting source
> Can't locate Tie/Handle.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Tie::Handle module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/m68k-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.1 /usr/lib/m68k-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/m68k-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl/5.20/parent.pm line 20.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Compression/FileHandle.pm line 32.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Interface/Storable.pm line 27.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Interface/Storable.pm line 27.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl/5.20/parent.pm line 20.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/Deps.pm line 551.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/dpkg-source line 36.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/dpkg-source line 36.
> E: pbuilder: Failed extracting the source
> 
> This is after upgrading dpkg from 1.17.23 to 1.17.24 just now.
> 
> Note that it also upgraded perl-modules from 5.20.1-5 to 5.20.2-1
> which may mean that that is the culprit; if so, please reassign
> to perl.

Yes, an already reported problem with perl-modules having relaxed its
dependency on perl. You need to upgrade your other perl packages to
match. Reassigning.

Thanks,
Guillem