Fails to parse CPAN HTML

Bug #1040090 reported by tex
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
perlbrew (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

The parsing of the fetched CPAN HTML is broken. CPAN seems to have swichted to "compressed" HTML with less newlines recently while the perlbrew code is relying heavily on those newlines being present for parsing the HTML. Please consider to following: - use the machine-readable list at http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.B Y for mirror selection - try to avoid using HTML parsing in other places and use machine-readable sources (if possible) - fix the HTML parsing if machine readable sources are not available

Forwarded upstream at: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79137

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: perlbrew 0.35-1 [modified: usr/share/perl5/App/perlbrew.pm]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 22 16:23:55 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: perlbrew
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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tex (lkml) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in perlbrew (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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