Package: perlbrew Version: 0.86-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When trying to build older versions of Perl, perlbrew fails immediately after downloading if a patch program isn't installed. It tries to pre-patch Configure but cannot. The resulting log (build.perl-5.8.8.log in this case) contains only: Auto-guessed '5.8.8' No patch utility found patching ext/IPC/SysV/SysV.xs ##### Brew Failed ##### The build completes successfully once patch is installed. It failed on 5.8.8, 5.10.1, 5.14.2, and 5.28.1. It succeeded (without needing patch) on 5.30.1. Thank you for your work in Debian, and on Perl in particular! - Aaron -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-12-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages perlbrew depends on: ii gcc 4:8.3.0-1 ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.28-10 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libcpan-perl-releases-perl 3.90-1 ii libdevel-patchperl-perl 1.56-1 ii liblocal-lib-perl 2.000024-1 ii make 4.2.1-1.2 ii perl 5.28.1-6+deb10u1 ii wget 1.20.1-1.1 Versions of packages perlbrew recommends: ii perl-doc 5.28.1-6+deb10u1 perlbrew suggests no packages. -- no debconf information