I am looking at a release-critical bug which means that the libdbd-ram-perl Debian package fails to build on sid/unstable, see this page for details:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=264670 The error occurs in the DBD::RAM (version 0.072) test routine (test.pl): Testing empty loop speed ... 100000 iterations in 0.1 cpu+sys seconds (2000000 per sec) Testing connect/disconnect speed ... Can't locate object method "STORE" via package "DBD::File::db" at /usr/lib/perl5/DBD/File.pm line 264. Test failed, message: Can't locate object method "STORE" via package "DBD::File::db" at /usr/lib/perl5/DBD/File.pm line 264. This is with perl 5.8.4 and DBI version 1.43, in the past the module DBD::File was part of DBD::CSV. It recently moved into DBI and it is only the version in DBI that causes a problem, the DBD::RAM module builds fine with the version in DBD::CSV (version 0.2002). Now looking at line 264, I see: return $dbh->SUPER::STORE($attrib, $value); The way the SUPER pseudopackage works, according to "Programming Perl" is that it looks for the method in the super-class of the current package. In this case the current package is DBD::File::db which does not contain a STORE method and does not inherit from anything. It may be that the intention is to look at the super-class of the object $dbh (it is in the class DBI::db), which does look like it can provide a STORE method. If this is the case then the code needs to do something to alter the current package to the correct one so that SUPER does the right thing. I cannot tell what is really intended here and when I did some changes myself to test and create a patch I managed to get a segfault instead. Any help gratefully received, thanks in advance, Stephen Quinney p.s. Please reply to me directly, I tried to get onto the mailing list but the website dbi.perl.org, where I guess the subscribe interface lives, is broken with a "Bad Gateway" error.
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