Bug#560393: libdate-manip-perl: newer versions break xmltv-util

[Jonathan Yu]

Hi Bert:

Thanks for the bug report.

I'm curious why this isn't considered a bug against xmltv-util.

The upstream maintainer made the interface changes and we simply
carried them through into Debian...

If there's something the pkg-perl group can do about our
(libdate-manip-perl) package to help alleviate this issue, we'd love
to hear it. Otherwise, we're just sort of at a loss as to what to do
about this; the NEWS file released with that version does note these
serious changes:

http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libdate-manip-perl/debian/NEWS?revision=47970&view=markup

(You would have seen these messages upon upgrade if you had
apt-listchanges installed)

Cheers,

Jonathan

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Bert Riding <reriding at xmission.com> wrote:
> Package: libdate-manip-perl
> Version: 5.54-1
> Severity: normal
>
>
> I use the tv_grab_na_dd script from xmltv-util to download and process tv listing data
> from Schedules Direct.  Recently, I have been unable to successfully do this because,
> it seems, Date::Manip is working differently in the 6.04-1 and 6.05-1 versions than it
> did in older releases.  Downgrading to 5.54-1 restores expected behavior and allows
> tv_grab_dd_na to work right.
>
> One other installed package that depends on libdate-manip-perl, gnucash, seems to not
> care which version is of libdate-manip-perl is installed.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>  APT prefers unstable
>  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages libdate-manip-perl depends on:
> ii  perl                          5.10.1-8   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
>
> libdate-manip-perl recommends no packages.
>
> libdate-manip-perl suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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