If you upgrade Perl to 5.13.5 or beyond, backuppc will begin to spew this warning at every oppurtunity. Debian/wheezy currently has these warnings on startup and in backuppc logs.
Debian bug #650522 suggests surrounding each use of qw(…) with rounded parenthesis: (qw(…)). There are a lot these used throughout backuppc, so I took a slightly less ingenious but just as effective route.
By adding: “no warnings 'deprecated';” to the beginning of each file that uses qw(…), the warnings are suppressed. This change can be scripted by using the following one-liner:
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grep -ril 'qw(' /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/|while read file; do sed -i "1i no warnings 'deprecated';" $file; done |
The location /usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/ is used on Debian/wheezy and may need adjusting for other distros.
Thank you for that post. I just installed BackupPC v3.2.1 onto OpenSUSE 12.1 and ran into that exact issue. Although your post’s suggestion is not a real solution, it is an easy way to “ignore” the issue until the code is updated in BackupPC.
Thank you for sharing this information.