Re: Bug#879526: dgit broken by recent dpkg (Can't locate object method "new" via package "Dpkg::Compression::Process" …)
Cyril Brulebois writes ("Bug#879526: dgit broken by recent dpkg (Can't locate object method "new" via package "Dpkg::Compression::Process" …)"):
> I'm not sure what the problem with use-ing Dpkg::Compression::Process
> unconditionally would be?
There isn't one, and that's how #879526 was fixed in dgit.
My comment ...
> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (2017-10-22):
> > Sadly I am not aware of a good way of detecting missing `use'
> > direcctives other than waiting for things to break when an implicitly
> > loaded module is no longer loaded.
... related to the fact that there may be other similar bugs lurking
in dgit (and in other programs). It would be nice if there was a way
to spot them.
Ian.
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