William J. Horka wrote on 7/13/09 11:49 AM:
Hi all,
Just a heads-up regarding the recent (07-Jul-2009) update of
perl-Devel-StackTrace to 1.21:
We're running a Request Tracker installation, and after the update from
perl-Exception-Class-1.24 to perl-Exception-Class-1.29 and a httpd
restart, it started logging the following error:
[Sun Jul 12 19:16:50 2009] [error] Devel::StackTrace version 1.2
required--this is only version 1.1902 at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Exception/Class/Base.pm line 9.\nBEGIN
failed--compilation aborted at
[snip]
This appears to be because yum and rpm read the version number "1.1902"
in perl-Devel-StackTrace-1.1902 as "one point one thousand nine hundred
two" (instead of reading it as the perlish way of writing "one point
nineteen oh-two"), and thus don't see perl-Devel-StackTrace-1.21 as an
update.
The fault of the CPAN package maintainer, usually. They left out a
decimal point in the 1.1902 version number, which really should have
been 1.19.02. The numbers in version numbers aren't decimals, the
decimal point is just a placeholder between them. So 1902 is indeed
higher than 21, so the maintainer technically went backwards on their
version number.
We've had to work around a few of these in our version checks in
Bugzilla, too, as there's a few CPAN maintainers who do that
occasionally, and it confuses the hell out of all of the version compare
utilities (the Perl library ones, too, not just yum)
--
Dave Miller http://www.justdave.net/
System Administrator, Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System http://www.bugzilla.org/
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