Package: libauthen-libwrap-perl
Version: 0.23-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.44-transition

This package fails to build with Perl 5.44.0-RC1 (not in Debian quite
yet), because lib/Authen/Libwrap.xs has a C style comment (/* ... */)
at the end where only XS style comments (# ...) are allowed.

The ExtUtils::ParseXS module, which does the parsing, was
largely rewritten during the Perl 5.44 development cycle,
and the new versions consider this a hard error.

  Building Authen-Libwrap
  Error: unrecognised line: '/ * EOF * /' in Libwrap.xs, line 32
    (possible start of a truncated XSUB definition?)

The perlxs documentation in 5.44.0-RC1 has this to say on the subject:

  An XSUB ends when /\n\n\S/ is encountered: i.e. a blank line followed
  by something on column one. (This is why it's recommended to indent
  XSUB-scoped keywords.) If the thing at column one matches any of the
  items which can appear in between XSUBs (such as file-scoped keywords)
  then it, and any subsequent lines, are processed as such. Anything
  starting on column one which isn't otherwise recognised, is interpreted
  as the first line of the next XSUB definition. In particular it is
  interpreted as the return type of the XSUB: this can lead to weird
  errors when something is unexpectedly interpreted as the start of a
  new XSUB, such as /* */, which isn't valid in the XS half of the file
  apart from within code blocks.

The attached trivial patch makes libauthen-libwrap-perl build with
both Perl 5.40 and Perl 5.44.

Hello,

Bug #1141622 in libauthen-libwrap-perl reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libauthen-libwrap-perl/-/commit/2aa95f97e8baca8a581ae319d265932ce84f5c8d
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Add patch from Niko Tyni for compatibility with Perl 5.44

(newer ExtUtils::ParseXS (3.63 or so)).

Closes: #1141622
------------------------------------------------------------------------

(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/1141622

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libauthen-libwrap-perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1141622@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> (supplier of updated libauthen-libwrap-perl package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:06:51 +0200
Source: libauthen-libwrap-perl
Architecture: source
Version: 0.23-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Closes: 1141622
Changes:
 libauthen-libwrap-perl (0.23-3) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Add patch from Niko Tyni for compatibility with Perl 5.44 (newer
     ExtUtils::ParseXS). (Closes: #1141622)
   * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.7.4.
   * Remove «Priority: optional», which is the current default.
   * Annotate test-only build dependencies with <!nocheck>.
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