Bug#826667: biber: breaks with perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u5
Source: biber
Version: 1.9-3
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS in stable
X-Debbugs-Cc: perl@packages.debian.org
Unfortunately the update of perl in the last point release includes some
changes which unexpectedly broke a small number of packages using perl.
The biber breakage is:
Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/dm-dateformats.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
Non-zero exit status: 255
Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 33 tests but ran 0.
Files=42, Tests=948, 135 wallclock secs ( 0.47 usr 0.37 sys + 125.12 cusr 8.43 csys = 134.39 CPU)
Result: FAIL
This appears to be related to this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796944#62
Right now, I can't spot which change in 5.20.2-3+deb8u5 caused the
problem, but applying the change reference in that bug report, attached,
fixes the FTBFS.
I have prepared a stable update for a similar breaking issue in
libdevel-declare-perl (see #826622); let me know if you'd like me to
prepare a similar NMU for biber or whether you'd like to handle it.
Apologies for the breakage.
Regards,
Dominic.
diff -Nru biber-1.9/debian/changelog biber-1.9/debian/changelog
--- biber-1.9/debian/changelog 2014-12-24 23:45:26.000000000 +0000
+++ biber-1.9/debian/changelog 2016-06-07 16:56:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+biber (1.9-3+deb8u1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Fix breakage triggered by point release update of perl
+
+ -- Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:56:10 +0100
+
biber (1.9-3) unstable; urgency=medium
* cherry pick upstream fix for hyphenation fixes (Closes: #773872)
diff -Nru biber-1.9/debian/patches/fix-5.20.3 biber-1.9/debian/patches/fix-5.20.3
--- biber-1.9/debian/patches/fix-5.20.3 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ biber-1.9/debian/patches/fix-5.20.3 2016-06-07 16:55:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -urN biber-1.9/lib/Biber/Input/file/bibtex.pm biber-1.9.new/lib/Biber/Input/file/bibtex.pm
+--- biber-1.9/lib/Biber/Input/file/bibtex.pm 2016-06-07 16:55:35.000000000 +0100
++++ biber-1.9.new/lib/Biber/Input/file/bibtex.pm 2016-06-07 16:55:13.402781198 +0100
+@@ -1214,8 +1214,8 @@
+
+ sub _hack_month {
+ my $in_month = shift;
+- if ($in_month =~ m/\A\s*((?:jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec).*)\s*\z/i) {
+- return $months{lc(Unicode::GCString->new($1)->substr(0,3)->as_string)};
++ if (my ($m) = $in_month =~ m/\A\s*((?:jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec).*)\s*\z/i) {
++ return $months{lc(Unicode::GCString->new($m)->substr(0,3)->as_string)};
+ }
+ else {
+ return $in_month;
diff -Nru biber-1.9/debian/patches/series biber-1.9/debian/patches/series
--- biber-1.9/debian/patches/series 2014-12-24 23:45:26.000000000 +0000
+++ biber-1.9/debian/patches/series 2016-06-07 16:56:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
fix-slurp-unknown
fix-perl-warning
biber-fix-hyphenation
+fix-5.20.3
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