[perl #118195] Module::CoreList is too often behind blead

On Mon May 27 03:05:34 2013, andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de wrote:
> My smokers, as you may know, are focussed on running blead against a
> substantial part of the CPAN.
> 
> *Often* I hit problems stemming from Module::CoreList.
> 
> Today this one: BOOK/Devel-TraceUse-2.09.tar.gz fails with blead with
> the diagnostics:
> 
> # Module::CoreList 2.91 doesn't know about Perl 5.019001
> 
> Let's verify:
> 
> /home/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/v5.19.0-253-
>    gd4fe707/9980/bin/perl -MModule::CoreList -le 'print
>    Module::CoreList->find_version("5.019001") ? "ok" : "not ok"'
> not ok
> 
> 
> I suppose there must be some written guidelines somewhere what has to
> happen before a blead version number may be bumped, right?
> 

The relevant function in Module::CoreList is this:

#####
sub find_version {
    my $v = shift;
    $v = shift if eval { $v->isa(__PACKAGE__) };
    return $version{$v} if defined $version{$v};
    return undef;
}
#####

(While we're at it, what's that 'return undef' doing there?  Shouldn't
'return' be better practice?)

What are the contents of %version at the relevant point?  Running a
program through the debugger, I call 'x [ sort {$a <=> $b} keys %version
]' and see that the last entries are:

#####
   96  5.017011
   97  5.018
   98  5.018000
   99  5.019000
   100  5.019
#####

So there's no entry for 5.019001, which explains the error message.  But
it's not clear to me how %version gets populated.

I tried adding entries for '5.019001' to %released and %delta in
dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList.pm, but that did not clear up
the problem.

Does anyone see how %version in CoreList.pm gets populated?  If we knew
that, then we could probably locate a place in the release procedures to
bump the version appropriately.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan



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• [perl #118195] Module::CoreList is too often behind blead by James E Keenan via RT
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