Re: [Xmltv-devel] Debian bug #211423 (tv_grab_na)

[Jerry V. <je...@ma...>]

This was a bug in the 0.5.18 release. And as per the release notes
for 0.5.19 has been fixed. I stumbled across this problem shortly
before the release was cut, so no discussion went out about it on
xmltv-devel. My appologies for that.

jerry

>>    Array found where operator expected at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 555,
>> at end of line (Missing operator before ?)
>>    syntax error at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 555, near "say @_"
>>    BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at
>> /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 656.
>
> It turns out that at least one other Debian user has been seeing this.
> He graciously gave me an account on his machine to do some debugging.
> Initially, I couldn't make anything out of the ordinary happen, but then
> I accidentally managed to reproduce the problem by running the latest
> tv_grab_na script against an older (0.5.17) version of the XMLTV package
> installed to /usr/share/perl5.
>
> I think what happened is that somehow, the xmltv-util package
> (containing the grabbers) got upgraded to 0.5.18 but the libxmltv-perl
> package (containing /usr/share/perl5/XMLTV) didn't.  However, I can't
> prove this, because the example machine I had been looking at had been
> completely downgraded to 0.5.17 as a temporary fix.
>
> I'm going to change the dependencies in my packages such that a given
> version of xmltv-util will always depend on exactly the same release of
> libxmltv-perl.  That will at least ensure that everything is consistent,
> and I hope that it will fix this bug, too.
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> KEN
>