get-maintainer.pl \C gives perl indigestion...

From: Valdis Kletnieks
Date: Thu Jun 18 2015 - 17:33:44 EST


Fedora Rawhide upgraded from Perl 5.20 to 5.22, and is now whinging about stuff:

I'd supply a patch, but I'm unsure why \C is being used instead of a '.' -
presumably the "Break a UTF-8 character into pieces" semantic is desired here.

% scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f scripts/get_maintainer.pl
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 307.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 552.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 570.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 619.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 634.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 935.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 949.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 963.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 989.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 1048.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 1090.
\C is deprecated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\C <-- HERE ):\s*(.*)/ at scripts/get_maintainer.pl line 1107.
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:GET_MAINTAINER SC...)
linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (open list)

% rpm -q perl
perl-5.22.0-344.fc23.x86_64

% perl -v

This is perl 5, version 22, subversion 0 (v5.22.0) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
(with 12 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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