Re: pgindent fails with perl 5.40

On 2024-10-08 Tu 5:26 AM, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 8 Oct 2024, at 03:50, Erik Wienhold <ewie(at)ewie(dot)name> wrote:
>>> Calling the import method of an unknown package produces a warning
>>> [...]
>>> It will also detect cases where a user passes an argument when using a
>>> package that does not provide its own import
>>> [...]
>> Because we use fatal warnings, pgindent fails.
> I'm far from fluent in Perl, but my reading of this is that File::Spec doesn't
> provide an import() function so explicitly listing devnull does nothing here.
> Your diff should thus be a safe fix. The devnull function existed already in
> 3.00 which was released just a hair over 2 decades ago so I think we can safely
> assume any File::Spec we use to have it.

The patch looks fine, and should be backpatched. Looks like this is a 12
year old thinko. AFAICT File::Spec doesn't export anything.

cheers

andrew

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