Bug #95736 for CPAN-Changes: Round tripping long URLs breaks URLs

Sat May 17 11:28:44 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

Round tripping long URLs breaks URLs

I discovered today that long URLs get arbitrarily snapped at the wrap length by Text::Tabs+Wrap

I'm not yet sure if this is a bug there, or in how its being consumed.

I had a changes entry like:

- https://gist.github.com/kentfredric/1ac2697f6d6a4112c798#file-5-010-analysis

And every time I gave it a parse / serialize run it became wrapped, funnily, as

2 lines, one ending with "-anal" and the next starting with "ysis"

Wed May 21 02:52:48 2014 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Ok, I found a workaround.

Because Text::Wrap doesn't take the wrap configuration as a parameter, its easy to adjust its settings at a higer scope.

So in my utility I use for normalizing changes file, I have this code in it:

$Text::Wrap::break='[\x09\x20]';
$Text::Wrap::huge='overflow';

The first of these replaces the moronic default of '\s' with an explicit "tab or space" match, because "\s" matches 0xA0 ... which is a NONBREAKING SPACE.

And the second one prevents a hard-snap when a single token exceeds the wrap length.

Mon May 18 22:01:58 2015 haarg [...] haarg.org - Correspondence added

I've fixed this for the next release.

Mon May 18 22:01:58 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon May 18 22:01:59 2015 haarg [...] haarg.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Sat May 23 03:26:14 2015 haarg [...] haarg.org - Correspondence added

Fixed in 0.400001

Sat May 23 03:26:15 2015 haarg [...] haarg.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'