Re: perl-5.10.0-4 -> perl-5.10.0-5 update appears to break DateTime

["Reini Urban" <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

2008/7/8 Gary R. Van Sickle <g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>:
> Hi Reini,
>
> It looks like something changed between perl 5.10.0-4 and -5 which breaks
> the DateTime module from CPAN (version 0.4302, latest).  The attached Simple
> Test Case(tm) results in only the following errors:
>
> Use of uninitialized value $id in pattern match (m//) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 65.

Bad side-effect with a third party module in site_perl.
Strange that I didn't see this in my tests, because I tested over
thousand CPAN modules with this release.
Oh, I see, I reported that it failed on June 5.

$ cpan DateTime
requires DateTime::Locale

DateTime::Locale cannot be installed because of this error,
but since you upgraded perl we have to fix DateTime::Locale now.

Oops. This seems to affect more modules.
Params::Validate with type => SCALAR seems to be broken.
  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Params%3A%3AValidate

I have to go now, but will provide a patch soon.
As workaround I would disable the validation in DateTime::Locale::_register
but this also doesn't work as expected.

    if (! defined $p{id} or !$id) {
	# cygperl5 error in Params::Validate?
	#warn "Broken Params::Validate. Given ".join(",",@_);
        $p{id} = $_[0];
        $p{en_language} = $_[1];
	my @keys = qw(en_script en_territory en_variant native_language
native_script native_territory native_variant class replace);
	for my $i (2 .. @_) {
	    $p{$keys[$i]} = $_[$i];
	}
    }


> Use of uninitialized value $id in exists at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 68.
> Use of uninitialized value $native_pieces[0] in join or string at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 83.
> Use of uninitialized value $id in hash element at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 85.
> Use of uninitialized value $id in hash element at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 90.
> Use of uninitialized value $id in pattern match (m//) at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 65.
> Use of uninitialized value $id in exists at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 68.
> Use of uninitialized value $id in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 68.
> You cannot replace an existing locale ('') unless you also specify the
> 'replace' parameter as true
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/DateTime/Locale.pm line 151.
> Compilation failed in require at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/DateTime.pm line 46.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/DateTime.pm line 46.
> Compilation failed in require at ./simple_test_case_datetime.pl line 3.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./simple_test_case_datetime.pl line 3.
>
> Doing the "perl -MExtUtils::Installed [...]"/"cpan `cat module.list`" thing
> (and also a "force install DateTime") results in the same errors, and
> needless to say doesn't end up generating a working DateTime module.  This
> same version of DateTime did work without error in 5.10.0-4 and does work
> with 5.8.8-4.
>
> --
> Gary R. Van Sickle
>
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