Bug#826667: biber: breaks with perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u5

[Dominic Hargreaves]

Source: biber
Version: 1.9-3
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS in stable
X-Debbugs-Cc: perl at packages.debian.org

Unfortunately the update of perl in the last point release includes some
changes which unexpectedly broke a small number of packages using perl.

The biber breakage is:

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/dm-dateformats.t  (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 255
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 33 tests but ran 0.
Files=42, Tests=948, 135 wallclock secs ( 0.47 usr  0.37 sys + 125.12 cusr  8.43 csys = 134.39 CPU)
Result: FAIL

This appears to be related to this:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796944#62

Right now, I can't spot which change in 5.20.2-3+deb8u5 caused the
problem, but applying the change reference in that bug report, attached,
fixes the FTBFS.

I have prepared a stable update for a similar breaking issue in
libdevel-declare-perl (see #826622); let me know if you'd like me to
prepare a similar NMU for biber or whether you'd like to handle it.

Apologies for the breakage.

Regards,
Dominic.
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