Bug#218759: [Popcon-developers] Bug#218759: v-string in use/require non-portable at /usr/sbin/popularity-contest line 26

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:48:05AM -0200, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> Package: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.7
> Severity: normal
> 
> popularity-contest works fine in this box (with perl 5.8.1-4); however,
> in another box (with perl 5.8.0-18) cron sent me the following mail:

Hello,

First, sorry for the delay, I was in holidays when the problem was
reported.

Second, I am a bit worried about this bug report because:

1) popcon should not cause the admin to receive emails weekly for no
reason.

2) There is little point at being `compatible' with pre-woody versions
   of perl, especially if `compatible' mean that perl will abort
   earlier.
 
3) This warning depend on the version of perl installed, apparently.

All in all, that mean I cannot trust `perl -w' to keep quiet, at least
for some version of perl. So, to avoid problem #1, I will probably
just remove the `-w' flag from perl invocation.

Apparently the warning was added in perl 8.0 and removed in 8.1 so
I suppoose it has bothered too many people.

So unless you have a better idea, I will proceed with removing the
`-w' flag from perl invocation.

Thanks for using the popularity-contest package!

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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