Bug #125441 for version: version.pm breaks cpanm

Thu May 31 07:11:54 2018 dcantrell [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

version.pm breaks cpanm

We have this in the cpanfile for my project at work: requires 'autobox', '>= 2.86'; The most recent version of autobox says: use version 0.77; our $VERSION = version->declare('v3.0.1'); Which makes cpanm say: Argument "^C\0^A" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at ... (see also https://github.com/chocolateboy/autobox/issues/13)

Thu May 31 20:58:48 2018 jpeacock [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu May 31 07:11:54 2018, DCANTRELL wrote: Show quoted text

> We have this in the cpanfile for my project at work: > > requires 'autobox', '>= 2.86'; > > The most recent version of autobox says: > > use version 0.77; our $VERSION = version->declare('v3.0.1'); > > Which makes cpanm say: > > Argument "^C\0^A" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at ...

Please provide the entire error message. I believe this is an error in cpanm since the version object should never be exposed like that during normal operations. John

Thu May 31 20:58:48 2018 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu May 31 21:02:34 2018 jpeacock [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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> Please provide the entire error message. I believe this is an error in > cpanm since the version object should never be exposed like that > during normal operations. > > John

I suspect it is this block in cpanm that is actually broken: my $action = $local && !$reinstall ? $self->numify_ver($version) < $self->numify_ver($local) ? "downgraded" : "upgraded" : undef; The whole purpose of version.pm is to compare versions *as objects* not to diddle with the internals. John

Thu May 31 21:20:00 2018 jpeacock [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu May 31 21:02:34 2018, JPEACOCK wrote: Bug opened against App::cpanminus https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus/issues/574 Thanks John

Thu May 31 21:20:00 2018 jpeacock [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'