Bug#672356: libspread-perl: DynaLoader now requires versions to be numbers, Spread.pm uses a string.

[Andrew Ruthven <andrew@etc.gen.nz>]

Package: libspread-perl
Version: 3.17.4-3
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Trying run a script on Wheezy that uses Spread now dies with an Invalid version format.

This simple example gives the same message:

puck@wheezy:~$ perl -MSpread -e 'print "hello\n"';                              
Invalid version format (non-numeric data) at /usr/lib/perl/5.14/DynaLoader.pm line 207.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
puck@wheezy:~$

Looking inside Spread.pm, I see that $VERSION is set to "3.17.0-1.04".  It appears
that DynaLoader between Perl 5.10 (Squeeze) and 5.14 (Wheezy) changed to
require VERSION to be a number.

The attached patch changes it to be a number - 3.1700000104 - which now allows me
to use Spread.pm:

puck@wheezy:~$ perl -MSpread -e 'print "hello\n"';
hello
puck@wheezy:~$ 

Cheers!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.14-vs2.3.2.8-beng (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=POSIX (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libspread-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.13-32
ii  libspread1                  3.17.4-3
ii  perl                        5.14.2-10
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.14.2]  5.14.2-10

libspread-perl recommends no packages.

libspread-perl suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

diff --git a/perl/Spread/Spread.pm b/perl/Spread/Spread.pm
index 7ca8223..a9b4f9d 100644
--- a/perl/Spread/Spread.pm
+++ b/perl/Spread/Spread.pm
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ use Carp;
 use strict;
 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $AUTOLOAD);
 
-$VERSION = "3.17.0-1.04" ;
+$VERSION = "3.1700000104" ;
 
 *SP_connect = \&Spread::connect;
 *SP_disconnect = \&Spread::disconnect;