maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 208087] devel/p5-forks patch

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Bug 208087: devel/p5-forks patch
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208087



--- Description ---
Created attachment 168323
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=168323&action=edit
patch to remove version string warning

With modern perl versions (I'm using 5.20), the included Storable module has a
version number which is non-numeric. This results in every program written with
the p5-forks module to emit this warning:

Argument "2.49_01" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.20/forks.pm line 1570.

The module itself has not been updated in a long time, but there is a proposed
patch for this on the CPAN bug database at
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=102730 which is what I implement
with this local patch in the port.

The Debian project has done similar:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libforks-perl.git/tree/debian
/patches/storable-version-check