Debian Bug report logs - #305526
libyaml-perl: Bug in either code or pod docs

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Quinney <stephen@jadevine.org.uk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: libyaml-perl: Bug in either code or pod docs

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:36:11 +0100

Package: libyaml-perl
Version: 0.38-2
Severity: normal

According to the manpage:

    use YAML qw(Dump Bless);
    $hash = {apple => 'good', banana => 'bad', cauliflower => 'ugly'};
    print Dump $hash;
    Bless($hash)->keys(['banana', 'apple']);
    print Dump $hash;

produces:

    --- #YAML:1.0
    apple: good
    banana: bad
    cauliflower: ugly
    --- #YAML:1.0
    banana: bad
    apple: good


but in fact the code does not do this, it produces instead:

---
apple: good
banana: bad
cauliflower: ugly
---
banana: bad
apple: good

I certainly expected the module to add the version strings (as did
some tests in a different module that I was building. It seems that at
some point this behaviour has changed. Looking at the code I see, on
line 254 of YAML.pm, in the subroutine _emit_header():

    if ($o->{UseVersion}) {
#         $o->{stream} .= " #YAML:1.0";
    }

I was slightly surprised at this but willing to accept it if this is
now considered correct behaviour. In that case it would be nice if the
pod for the module could be updated to reflect the fact.

Thanks,

Stephen Quinney

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages libyaml-perl depends on:
ii  perl                          5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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Message #10 received at 305526-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

To: 305526-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: libyaml-perl: Bug in either code or pod docs

Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:55:21 +0100

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Hello,

this bug is fixed in the latest version of yaml in Debian. The docs were
updated.


-Flo

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