Control: severity -1 important On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 11:49:55AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: perltidy > Version: 20250105-1 > Severity: wishlist > User: [email protected] > Usertags: perl-5.44-transition > > Hi Don, > > there's quite a few newer upstream releases of perltidy available, > please consider updating the package. > > I'm specifically interested in the 'Possible attempt to escape whitespace' > warning fix in https://github.com/perltidy/perltidy/pull/191 (perltidy > 20250912), as the warning is causing me some grief with testing Perl > 5.44.0 release candidates. Any version with that fix would be fine by me.
Perl 5.44 has been in experimental for a while now, and the warning is making at least these packages fail to build with it: libdata-peek-perl_0.54-1 libperl-critic-pulp-perl_100-1 perlimports_0.000065-1 The warning is quite ubiquitous: # perltidy Possible attempt to escape whitespace in qw() list at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy/Formatter.pm line 4087. Possible attempt to escape whitespace in qw() list at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy/Formatter.pm line 5099. Possible attempt to escape whitespace in qw() list at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy/Formatter.pm line 13133. Possible attempt to escape whitespace in qw() list at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy/Tokenizer.pm line 6500. Possible attempt to escape whitespace in qw() list at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy/Tokenizer.pm line 8471. Possible attempt to escape whitespace in qw() list at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy/Tokenizer.pm line 11192. Possible attempt to escape whitespace in qw() list at /usr/share/perl5/Perl/Tidy/Tokenizer.pm line 11363. So this is a blocker for getting Perl 5.44 into sid and forky. I'm raising the severity accordingly. If you want to test changes against Perl 5.44 in experimental and run into uninstallability problems, there is a test repository of rebuilt Debian sid packages for amd64 available at <https://perl.debian.net/>. -- Niko
