Bug#767174: librdf-trine-perl: Spec violation in serializing ASK queries

[Kjetil Kjernsmo]

Package: librdf-trine-perl
Version: 1.011-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

The SPARQLES survey showed that a Debian and librdf-trine-perl-based
implementation (maintained by yours truly) of the SPARQL protocol
failed tests for ASK queries:
http://sparqles.okfn.org/endpoint/http://data.lenka.no/sparql 

Upstream has established that this is their fault and a bug in
librdf-trine-perl, which has existed for a long time, and is still
present in the latest version. As it is a violation of the
specification, it is quite severe, but the survey also has a decent
indication of the actual severity, there are many features that
actually work. 

Upstream is likely to release a fix shortly, as it should be trivial
to fix. I hope this will be considered for Jessie, as it would be
doing the users disservice if the distribution was shipped with a
known bug with a straightforward fix.

-- System Information (is for my Wheezy system, the problem is also
present in Testing):
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (800, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14.7-5-robin (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 librdf-trine-perl depends on:
ii  libalgorithm-combinatorics-perl                 0.26-1
ii  libdbd-sqlite3-perl                             1.37-1
ii  libdbi-perl                                     1.622-1+deb7u1
ii  libdbix-connector-perl                          0.52-1
ii  liberror-perl                                   0.17-1
ii  libjson-perl                                    2.53-1
ii  liblog-log4perl-perl                            1.29-1
ii  libossp-uuid-perl                               1.6.2-1.3
ii  libset-scalar-perl                              1.25-1
ii  libtext-csv-perl                                1.21-1
ii  libtext-table-perl                              1.123-1
ii  liburi-perl                                     1.60-1
ii  libwww-perl                                     6.04-1
ii  libxml-commonns-perl                            0.06-1
ii  libxml-namespace-perl                           0.02-1
ii  libxml-sax-perl                                 0.99+dfsg-2
ii  perl                                            5.14.2-21+deb7u2
ii  perl-modules [libmodule-load-conditional-perl]  5.14.2-21+deb7u2

Versions of packages librdf-trine-perl recommends:
ii  librdf-perl                         1.0.14.1-1
ii  librdf-rdfa-parser-perl             1.097-1
ii  librdf-trin3-perl                   0.206-2
ii  librdf-trine-node-literal-xml-perl  0.16-1
ii  libxml-libxml-perl                  2.0001+dfsg-1

Versions of packages librdf-trine-perl suggests:
ii  libdbd-mysql-perl  4.021-1+b1
ii  libdbd-pg-perl     2.19.2-2
ii  libredis-perl      2:1.9510-2

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