Error weaving POD: Can't call method "notice" on an undefined value

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This one comes in from CPAN Testers: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/37736a9c-7e65-11e6-8efa-05c5ea7e2f12

Error weaving POD for path "/tmp/loop_over_bdir-11294-B41gnj/Statocles-0.077-0/t/share/app/perldoc/lib-weaver/My.pm": Can't call method "notice" on an undefined value at /home/sand/src/perl/repoperls/installed-perls/perl/v5.25.4-170-g2c4879e/109d/lib/site_perl/5.25.5/Pod/Weaver/Section/Legal.pm line 56.

Does this mean that Pod::Weaver's API changed? Or did we give it some bad input information?

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Maybe a bleadperl change? I see the error only with perl 5.25.5, but not with earlier perls.

@andk: maybe a git-bisect candidate?

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Correction: I have now a fail report with perl 5.24.0.

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Yes, it's quite likely a change in Pod::Weaver 4.014 (@rjbs: FYI):

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Regression 'qr:#\s+Pod::Weaver\s+any\s+(\S+)'
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Name                   Theta          StdErr     T-stat
[0='const']           1.0000          0.0000    75828566159426976.00
[1='eq_4.012']       -0.0000          0.0000      -2.41
[2='eq_4.013']       -0.0000          0.0000      -7.48
[3='eq_4.014']       -1.0000          0.0000    -64086835319602520.00
[4='eq_missing']              0.0000          0.0000       1.30

R^2= 1.000, N= 47, K= 5

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Similar issue: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118089

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I've created a PR for Pod::Weaver to fix this: rjbs/Pod-Weaver#44. When that is released, I will update the version requirements for Statocles.

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I've released a version (0.078) which skips the tests for Pod::Weaver 4.014 for now (and admonishes people who want weaving to downgrade to 4.013), so at least testers won't be sending in false-positives.