[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#865888: nagios-plugin-check-multi: FTBFS with Perl 5.26: Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here

[Niko Tyni]

Package: nagios-plugin-check-multi
Version: 0.26-3 
Severity: important
User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.26-transition

This package fails to build with Perl 5.26 (currently in experimental.)

A full build log is available at

  http://perl.debian.net/rebuild-logs/perl-5.26-throwaway/nagios-plugin-check-multi_0.26-3/nagios-plugin-check-multi_0.26-3_amd64-2017-05-21T12:04:35Z.build

and the server also hosts an unofficial repository of packages binNMU'd for Perl
5.26 that can be used for testing purposes; see <http://perl.debian.net/>.

Log excerpt:

#   Failed test 'output correct'
#   at 10_check_multi.t line 68.
#                   'Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^${ <-- HERE NAGIOS}/ at ../check_multi line 1377.

[...]

Test Summary Report
-------------------
10_check_multi.t         (Wstat: 6400 Tests: 94 Failed: 25)
  Failed tests:  4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26
                28, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 54
                56, 58, 60, 62
  Non-zero exit status: 25
20_check_multi_macros.t  (Wstat: 1536 Tests: 20 Failed: 6)
  Failed tests:  2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
  Non-zero exit status: 6
30_check_multi_perfdata.t (Wstat: 3840 Tests: 40 Failed: 15)
  Failed tests:  2, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 30, 32
                34, 36, 38, 40
  Non-zero exit status: 15
Files=3, Tests=154,  6 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr  0.00 sys +  2.96 cusr  0.21 csys =  3.21 CPU)
Result: FAIL

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org