Item13209: false alarm of corrupt .changes file

Since the format of the .changes file has been changed to JSON I get the following error message:

Corrupt /var/www.../.changes: Can't locate Win32/Locale.pm in @INC

This is is caused by the mailnotify cronjob ... which nevertheless proceeds properly. The problem stems from CPAN:JSON defining the $@ variable after calling decode() ... which is a false alarm as the system is running under Linux. Whenever a json file is corrupt CPAN:JSON will call Carp::croak() and report the exact position where the error happened.

Above Win32::Locale warning seems to be caused by CPAN:JSON testing libraries ... at least that's what I presume. So it sets the $@ variable tested after calling decode(), yet still its value does not matter.

However the following test_json.pl does not show the same behavior.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use JSON;

my $json = JSON->new->pretty(0);

...

my $data = readFile($file);
$json->decode($data);

print STDERR "woops: $@\n" if $@;

So there is something else setting $@ ... and I dunno what. Package versions:

• JSON-2.90
• JSON::XS-3.10
• JSON:PP-2.27203

Crawford, any idea?

-- MichaelDaum - 13 Jan 2015

Missing eval. The $@ was probably hanging around from the dependency checks.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 15 Jan 2015

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