Bug 913854 – dev-perl/MIME-tools-5.510.0: warning due to incorrect MIME::QuotedPrint version parsing

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jiri Novosad 2023-09-08 07:47:01 UTC]

Created attachment 870071 [details, diff]
Debian patch

After upgrade to perl-5.38.0 this started to print a warning:

$ perl -e 'use MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint'
Argument "3.16_01" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.38/MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm line 76.

There is a Debian patch (attached), I can confirm that it fixes the problem.

[Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow 2023-09-09 07:32:15 UTC]

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=eaf82ae7d904aca40af8f92eb8eb4fee9ca629d7

commit eaf82ae7d904aca40af8f92eb8eb4fee9ca629d7
Author:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
AuthorDate: 2023-09-09 07:30:00 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <[e-mail]>
CommitDate: 2023-09-09 07:30:00 +0000

    dev-perl/MIME-tools: fix compat w/ Perl 5.38
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/913854
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <[e-mail]>

 dev-perl/MIME-tools/MIME-tools-5.510.0-r1.ebuild   | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 .../files/MIME-tools-5.510.0-perl-5.38.patch       | 36 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 79 insertions(+)

[Comment 2 Sam James 2023-09-09 07:40:39 UTC]

Many thanks for reporting. I really try to keep an eye out for things like this and didn't see anything of the sort in the wild.

[Comment 3 Sam James 2023-09-09 08:36:17 UTC]

I suspect this may be related to https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8801094.html, but not sure yet.