I've seen it. I believe the error message is exactly what it says. Certain now deprecated features are in use in BackupPC 3.1.0. The use of these still valid but deprecated features is warned since some of the BackupPC perl files invoke 'strict'. Unfortunately, there seems to be no good way to just shut off this error without shutting off lots of other 'strict' error messaging (or at least that's what I found in my searches).
The solution would be to rewrite the tagged lines (and several similar other ones in other BackupPC source files) to avoid the deprecated parentheses usage. It should be rather trivial, but it would be nice to have it done as part of an "official" bug fix release. Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote at about 12:10:14 -0400 on Wednesday, August 21, 2013: > I just upgraded one of my Ubuntu backup servers to Precise (12.04.3). It had > been running BackupPC 3.1.0, and now is running 3.2.1. (Package > 3.2.1-2ubuntu1.1). > > Whenever I run any backuppc command, I get these errors: > > Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at > /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 302. > Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated at > /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1425. > > > Has anyone else seen this and/or fixed it? I'm not a perl monger, so I don't > have the experience to debug this easily. > > If no one else has seen this, I'll presume it's a packaging issue and open a > ticket on the Ubuntu package trouble ticket system. > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and > AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, > analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. > Visit us today! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
