#1102409 dh-make-perl: trying to execute dh-make-perl --recursive --cpan Net::SSH::Perl leads me to an error

Package:
perl
Source:
perl
Description:
Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
Submitter:
Bardi Laurent
Date:
2025-04-12 16:03:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1102409#5
Date:
2025-04-08 19:22:34 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

dh-make-perl --recursive --cpan Net::SSH::Perl
....
compiling Crypt::Curve25519
...
illegal backslash escape sequence in string, at character offset 137 (before "\\@cpan.org>"\n   ],...") at /usr/share/perl/5.36/Parse/CPAN/Meta.pm line 57.
  at /usr/share/perl/5.36/CPAN/Meta.pm line 301.
  at /usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm line 218.

i ve tried with version 0.129 because i suspected a bug in native bookworm version (0.122) but same effect.
By the way contact Me atLaurent.Bardi@ipbs.fr

Thanks a lot


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#1102409#10
Date:
2025-04-08 21:43:34 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 perl/5.36.0-7+deb12u1

This parsing error, caused by an invalid upstream META.{json,yaml}
file, happens in Parse::CPAN::Meta, which comes with perl.

Reassigning the bug.


Cheers,
gregor
#1102409#21
Date:
2025-04-12 15:55:13 UTC
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FWIW Crypt::Curve25519 was recently fixed upstream with version 0.08
(2025-04-09), so the immediate issue is hopefully gone.

I see dh-make-perl unconditionally calls CPAN::Meta->load_file() which is
documented to "die if the deserialized version fails to validate against
its stated specification version."

The file was indeed invalid JSON so it did not validate. I'm not sure
what else CPAN::Meta should have done here?

It seems to me that dh-make-perl needs to add exception handling.
Gregor, could you please reassign back if you agree?
#1102409#26
Date:
2025-04-12 16:01:12 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 dh-make-perl 0.122

Ok …

… that's a good point indeed, thank you.


Cheers,
gregor