Worked around this issue by inserting round parentheses around the qw(...) stansas at the locations in the above report.
SMB failures turned out to be a configuration issue on my system, so downgrading bug to NORMAL. Thank you for maintaining this package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org