www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-Shell broken after www/p5-WWW-Mechanize upgrade

[Jez Hancock]

>Submitter-Id:  current-users
>Originator:    Jez Hancock
>Organization:  n/a
>Confidential:  no
>Synopsis:      p5-WWW-Mechanize-Shell broken after p5-WWW-Mechanize upgrade
>Severity:      non-critical
>Priority:      low
>Category:      sw-bug
>Release:   	FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE i386
>Environment: 	System: FreeBSD users.munk.me.uk 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Thu Apr 27 02:47:55 BST 2006 root at users.munk.nu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MUNKBOXEN i386

>Description:
www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-Shell fails to work after latest upgrade of
www/p5-WWW-Mechanize. WWW::Mechanize::Shell author is aware of the
problem and indicates a 2 week period before a fix.

>How-To-Repeat:
Install/upgrade www/p5-WWW-Mechanize to latest version from ports.
Install www/p5-WWW-Mechanize-Shell from ports.
Initiate a mechshell:

perl -MWWW::Mechanize::Shell -eshell

results in error:

Can't call method "request" on an undefined value at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/WWW/Mechanize.pm line 430.

>Fix:
Author of WWW::Mechanize::Shell suggests 2 weeks at least before a fix.
Perhaps mark port broken until then?