Perl 5.6.0 problems

[Michael Koehne <kraehe@copyleft.de>]

Hy Gurus,

  I have a warning for those how plan to use Perl 5.6.0 as a default
  perl in Woody - Perl 5.6.0 is not as stable as it should ;-(

  I'm running Perl 5.6.0 as /opt/perl-5.6.0, so I can test it without
  the risk to ruin my Debian. I've tried to "install Bundle::CPAN"
  witch went fine, but when I try to "install Bundle::XML" things went
  wrong.

  I looked at each of the modules, and I expect that some of the
  errors I got with Bundle::XML also fit with other modules.

  Especialy the \d in XML::DOM is likely to exist in other Perl modules,
  and two modules XML::Writer and XML::Encoding caused Perl to dump core
  at exit of their regression test.

  I contact the module authors respectivly to make our XML modules
  conforming to Perl 5.6.0, as "use utf8;" is the very important for us.

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
Bundle summary: The following items in bundle Bundle::XML had installation
problems:
  XML::Encoding E/EN/ENNO/XML-DOM-1.25.tar.gz XML::Parser::PerlSAX
  XML::Grove XML::Handler::Sample XML::ESISParser XML::Handler::XMLWriter
  XML::Handler::Subs XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter Data::Grove XML::SAX2Perl
  XML::Perl2SAX XML::PatAct::MatchName XML::PatAct::ToObjects
  XML::PatAct::Amsterdam XML::PatAct::PatternTempl XML::PatAct::ActionTempl
  XML::Template XML::Twig XML::Writer XSLT XML::Handler::YAWriter
  E/EN/ENNO/XML-XQL-0.61.tar.gz 
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

XML::Encoding
	Segmentation fault (core dumped)
	#0  0x401c4093 in doContent ()
	   from /opt/perl-5.6.0/lib/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so

E/EN/ENNO/XML-DOM-1.25.tar.gz
	\d in DOM.pm line 136 (easy fixed as [0-9])
	t/attr..............Can't locate object method "equals" via package "XML::Parser::ContentModel" at CmpDOM.pm line 168.

XML::Parser::PerlSAX
XML::Handler::Sample
XML::ESISParser
XML::Handler::XMLWriter
XML::Handler::Subs
XML::Handler::CanonXMLWriter
XML::SAX2Perl
XML::Perl2SAX
XML::PatAct::MatchName
XML::PatAct::ToObjects
XML::PatAct::Amsterdam
XML::PatAct::PatternTempl
XML::PatAct::ActionTempl
Data::Grove
	t/xp_sax............ok 2/15Failed to open fran-def

XML::Template
XML::Twig
	t/test1.............NOK 41          expecting id:title1:no:1                 
	          found     no:1:id:title1

XML::Grove
	depends on Data::Grove (missing in Makefile.PL)

XML::Writer
	Attempt to free unreferenced scalar at test.pl line 513.
	Segmentation fault (core dumped)
	#0  0x400e754f in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
	#1  0x8099613 in Perl_pp_entersub ()
	#2  0x8093fc0 in Perl_runops_standard ()
	#3  0x805bedc in S_run_body ()
	#4  0x805bc7b in perl_run ()
	#5  0x80598c0 in main ()
	#6  0x400aaa42 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6

XML::XSLT
	No tests defined for XML::XSLT extension.

XML::Handler::YAWriter
	depends on XML::Parser::PerlSAX

E/EN/ENNO/XML-XQL-0.61.tar.gz
	depends on XML::DOM


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