Catalyst does not work. Weak references not supported.

[Markus Vuori]

Binary package hint: perl

Thanks for packaging both Perl and catalyst. However Catalyst is totally
unusable. Found this showstopper bug:

markus@geek:~$ catalyst.pl foobar
Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl at /usr/share/perl5/Catalyst.pm line 18
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Catalyst.pm line 18.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Catalyst/Helper.pm line 62.

[Markus Vuori (lite-deactivatedaccount)]

See also:

http://<email address hidden>/msg195157.html

[Steve Peters (steve-fisharerojo)]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:03:54AM -0000, Markus Vuori wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: perl
>
> Thanks for packaging both Perl and catalyst. However Catalyst is totally
> unusable. Found this showstopper bug:
>
> markus@geek:~$ catalyst.pl foobar
> Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl at /usr/share/perl5/Catalyst.pm line 18
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Catalyst.pm line 18.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Catalyst/Helper.pm line 62.
>
> ** Affects: perl (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Untriaged
> Status: Unconfirmed
>

This cause of this problem has been previously identified, and a fix has
been implemented in the Debian Perl and applied upstream to the actual
Perl sources.

The workaround is to reinstall the module Scalar::Util from CPAN.

Steve Peters
<email address hidden>

[Jérémie Corbier (jcorbier)]

Rejecting as it is a duplicate. Feel free to add any other comments to the other bug report.