I needed to see what monitors were attached to some machines but didn't feel like walking to all of them, so I installed monitor-edid. Unfortunately it failed to run: Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/.*? = { <-- HERE / at /usr/bin/monitor-parse-edid line 735. I guess that became illegal in some more recent Perl version. The fix is pretty trivial; backwhack two curly braces on line 735. At least that gets it going where I needed it but I didn't check all of the code for other places where braces need to be escaped.
Created attachment 1389005 [details] proposed patch
I just ran into this as well. Only the first curly needs a backslash though. Attached a proposed patch.
Thank you for the report and the patch. The package does not build currently: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=24832904 Would you be interested in taking it over?
FWIW: There seems to be a newer version in Mandriva but I do not know where they store the source tarball: https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/monitor-edid
I reported this upstream with the patch.
Till, I can take over the package if you don't have the bandwidth.
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