Bug#811223: FTBFS: perl texi2html: Can't use 'defined(@array)'

[Graham Inggs]

Control: tags -1 patch

The attached patch was applied in Ubuntu.
Description: Fix texi2html for Perl 5.22
 Fixes FTBFS for arch:all - Can't use 'defined(@array)'
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/811223
Author: Graham Inggs 
Last-Update: 2016-02-05
--- a/doc/texi2html
+++ b/doc/texi2html
@@ -1526,7 +1526,7 @@
 $level--; # here we start at 0
 if ($name =~ /^appendix/) {
 	# appendix style
-	if (defined(@appendix_sec_num)) {
+	if (@appendix_sec_num) {
 	_sec_num($level, @appendix_sec_num);
 	} else {
 	@appendix_sec_num = ('A', 0, 0, 0);
@@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@
 	return(join('.', @appendix_sec_num[0..$level]));
 } else {
 	# normal style
-	if (defined(@normal_sec_num)) {
+	if (@normal_sec_num) {
 	_sec_num($level, @normal_sec_num);
 	} else {
 	@normal_sec_num = (1, 0, 0, 0);

Bug#811223: FTBFS: perl texi2html: Can't use 'defined(@array)'

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: fftw
Version: 2.1.5-2
Severity: serious

> sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.67.0 (26 Dec 2015) on dl580gen9-02.hlinux
...
> /usr/bin/make -C doc html 
> make[1]: Entering directory '/<>/doc'
> perl texi2html -split_chapter -no_toc_href fftw.texi
> Can't use 'defined(@array)' (Maybe you should just omit the defined()?) at 
> texi2html line 1529.
> Makefile:798: recipe for target 'html' failed
> make[1]: *** [html] Error 255
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/<>/doc'
> debian/rules:49: recipe for target 'build-indep-stamp' failed
> make: *** [build-indep-stamp] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

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Martin Michlmayr
Linux for HPE Helion, Hewlett Packard Enterprise