Bug 425260

Summary:	perl 5.16.0 complains about incorrect use of length function by perl-core/IO-Compress-2.024
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Paul McDermott <pmcdermott98>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Paul McDermott 2012-07-08 09:40:20 UTC

Applications using the perl IO:Compress package will warn about incorrect use of the length function in IO::Compress::Zlib::Extra

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run a program using IO:Compress under perl 5.16
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Expected Results:  
No warning messages

Warning message from perl 5.16:

length() used on @array (did you mean "scalar(@array)"?) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.16.0/IO/Compress/Zlib/Extra.pm line 166.

Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-07-08 14:41:34 UTC

Don't use testing dev-lang/perl and stable perl-core/ packages. It doesn't work reliably.

Comment 2 Paul McDermott 2012-07-09 22:02:44 UTC

But I've ended up here becuase autounmask thinks that perl-5.16 is needed by Test-Simple and Ima-DBI:

#required by virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.980.0-r2, required by dev-perl/Ima-DBI-0.350.0, required by @selected, required by @world (argument)
=dev-lang/perl-5.16.0 ~x86

I don't know how to avoid the upgrade if Test-Simple thinks 5.16 is needed...