Bug#788712: FTBFS with perl 5.22 due to deprecation warnings

[Roderich Schupp]

Source: findutils
Version: 4.5.14-2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

"make check" fails with

....
+Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked
by <-- HERE in m/\G(?:(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[
\t\r\f]*)(?:\([cC]\)|@copyright{ <-- HERE }|&copy;))?(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[
\t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)(?:(?:\d\d)?\d\d(?:,(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\
)[ \t\r\f]*)?|-))*((?:\d\d)?\d\d)(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[
\t\r\f]*)Free(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)Software(?:[
\t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)Foundation,(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[
\t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)Inc./ at /raid/build/work/findutils-4.5.14/build-aux
/update-copyright line 174, <> chunk 7.
+Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked
by <-- HERE in m/\+\#\(Copyright(?:(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[
\t\r\f]*)(?:\([cC]\)|@copyright{ <-- HERE }|&copy;))?(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[
\t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)(?:(?:\d\d)?\d\d(?:,(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\
)[ \t\r\f]*)?|-))*((?:\d\d)?\d\d)(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[
\t\r\f]*)Free(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)Software(?:[
\t\r\f]*(?:[ \t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)Foundation,(?:[ \t\r\f]*(?:[
\t\r\f]|\n\#\ )[ \t\r\f]*)Inc.)/ at /raid/build/work/findutils-4.5.14/build-aux
/update-copyright line 183, <> chunk 7.
FAIL: test-update-copyright.sh

Patch attached.

Cheers, Roderich



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers wily
  APT policy: (500, 'wily'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 
'buildd-experimental'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-rc7 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

-- no debconf information

--- findutils-4.5.14-ORIG/build-aux/update-copyright	2015-06-14 15:25:22.164657972 +0200
+++ findutils-4.5.14/build-aux/update-copyright	2015-06-14 15:27:59.611124785 +0200
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 use warnings;
 
 my $copyright_re = 'Copyright';
-my $circle_c_re = '(?:\([cC]\)|@copyright{}|&copy;)';
+my $circle_c_re = '(?:\([cC]\)|@copyright\{\}|&copy;)';
 my $holder = $ENV{UPDATE_COPYRIGHT_HOLDER};
 $holder ||= 'Free Software Foundation, Inc.';
 my $prefix_max = 5;