Bug#741010: libical-parser-html-perl: missing parens around qw()

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Fri Mar 7 11:09:37 UTC 2014


Package: libical-parser-html-perl
Version: 1.07-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Package completely broken

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:51:28PM +0100, Lorenz wrote:
> hello there,
> 
> just wanted to let you know that today i fixed my
> /usr/share/perl5/iCal/Parser/HTML.pm
> from debian package libical-parser-html-perl.
> In line 64 (routine sheet_args) there was
> 
> foreach my $t qw(week month year) {
> 
> which gave a syntax error on my system (jessie), whereas
> 
> foreach my $t (qw(week month year)) {
> 
> works perfectly. I dont know how to submit any bug fixes, or even
> whether this is actually a bug or something else, so i decided to just
> inform you, so it doesnt get lost und that somebody in charge can fix
> this upstream.
> 
> kind regards and hope it is usefull for others

Thanks for this, I'm filing this as a bug against the package on your
behalf.

Note for package maintainers: it would be good to get at least a test
suite which tries to load the modules in this package...

Dominic.



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