Bug#756629: libfile-fcntllock-perl: File::FcntlLock no longer exports the required constants

[gregor herrmann]

Control: tag -1 + confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 jt at toerring.de

On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:00:17 +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:

> The documentation of File::FcntlLock says:
> 
>    EXPORT
>        The package exports the following constants:
> 
>        F_GETLK F_SETLK F_SETLKW
>        F_RDLCK F_WRLCK F_UNLCK
>        SEEK_SET SEEK_CUR SEEK_END
> 
> But:
> 
> $ perl -MFile::FcntlLock -Mstrict -w -e "F_GETLK"
> Bareword "F_GETLK" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at -e line 1.
> Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
> 
> The problem is that the constants are exported by File::FcntlLock::Core
> but no longer by File::FcntlLock itself.
> 
> Here's a tentative patch:
> $ diff -u lib/File/FcntlLock.pm /usr/lib/perl5/File/FcntlLock.pm
> --- lib/File/FcntlLock.pm	2014-05-27 16:38:47.000000000 +0200
> +++ /usr/lib/perl5/File/FcntlLock.pm	2014-07-31 15:50:19.454997932 +0200
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
>  
>  bootstrap File::FcntlLock $VERSION;
>  
> +our @EXPORT = @File::FcntlLock::Core::EXPORT;
>  
>  ###########################################################
>  #
> 
> It seems to work here. I'd appreciate a prompt fix as it's affecting Kali.

Thanks.

(Fullquote because) I'm CC'ing upstream who I remember as very
helpful the last time there were some issues around this module :)


Cheers,
gregor

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