Hello, Thanks for investigating this bug.
On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 04:13:47PM -0400, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + patch
>
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 11:58:29 -0400, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>
> > > Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <--
> > > HERE in m/\\end{ <-- HERE document}/ at
> > > /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm line 643.
> > > debian/rules:13: recipe for target 'override_dh_auto_build' failed
> > > make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_build] Error 255
>
> That's an interesting bug.
>
> The error is in /usr/share/perl5/Locale/Po4a/TransTractor.pm:643
> which is
> my $found = scalar grep { /$position/ } @{$self->{TT}{doc_out}};
> and $position (comes from addendum_parse() in the same file and)
> contains '\\end{document}' at that point.
>
> And this '\\end{document}' itself comes from files in the
> packaging-tutorial po4a directory.
>
> So I don't know if po4a needs a generic fix, or packaging-tutorial
> needs to change how it uses it.
I would be unable to generate a patch for the first option. My perl is
rather rotten nowadays. I think that the second option is sensible:
packaging-tutorial is providing some code that is interpreted by po4a,
so it should ensure that it provides correct code.
> I'm attaching a patch for the second option.
Many thanks for that. It looks great to me.
Bye, Mt.
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