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On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:20 AM, Andrew Dougherty wrote: >> It is imperative that you test this release candidate with any software >> written in Perl which you use or maintain. If no "showstopper" class >> bugs are found in the next 7 days, we will release a virtually identical >> tarball as Perl 5.12.0. >> >> You can find a list of errata - known bugs or modules known to be >> incompatible with 5.12.0 - at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/errata.html > > SpamAssassin-3.3.1 is very noisy under 5.12.0-RC1 (and even fails one test due > to that noise). Specifically it throws up this warning: > > defined(%hash) is deprecated at /home/doughera/my/perl/lib/site_perl/5.12.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 757. > (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) > > and also 36 copies of this warning: > warn: Use of "goto" to jump into a construct is deprecated at /home/doughera/my/perl/lib/site_perl/5.12.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/Check.pm line 409. > > (I also get 887 "Use of uninitialized value in lc" warnings from various > spots in various support modules, and am still tracking them down. > I suspect these are not 5.12.0-specific.) > > This has already been reported by Slaven to the SA bug queue: > https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6392 > > For 5.12.0, it's obviously too late to address the question of whether > 36 identical copies of the 'goto' warning should be printed, or whether > one would have been sufficient, but I might have a look at implementing > something like that for 5.13.x. > > However, I think this is worth adding to that errata page. FYI, I've been working on getting modules I work with perl 5.12 warn free. Spam Assassin is one of them. It should be cleaned up later this week.Thread Previous