Please find attached News-Newsrc-1.08.ebuild. Fulfills dependency for ubh (Bug 34198). This package itself depends on Set-IntSpan, which will be submitted shortly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 21158 [details] Initial ebuild for News-Newsrc
Created attachment 21159 [details, diff] Patch to remove v-string The use of v-strings has been deprecated in Perl. This patch prevents an error message from being printed each time this package is used and ensures it's continued functionality after Perl 5.10.0.
Submitted Bug 34203 for dev-perl/Set-IntSpan.
Added without the vstring patch. I read up a little on it, but don't see how use 5.006 is any better. We have a ways to go anyway. Can you elaborate?
Well, my (admittedly limited) understanding of the v-string issue is that they're deprecated in Perl 5.8 (and will therefore be gone soon), and didn't exist before 5.6. Without the patch, the use of this module triggers the following warning in Perl 5.8.0 whenever it's used: v-string in use/require non-portable at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/News/Newsrc.pm line 1. While I don't fully understand the vstring issue (never used them myself), I figured it would be better to submit code that was warning-free.
