Re: [PATCH] send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v3.01 (Re: [BUG] git-send-email broken: Can't locate object method "starttls")

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 03:44:15PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> Subject: send-email: Net::SMTP::starttls was introduced in v3.01
>>
>> We cannot rely on the starttls method being present in the copy
>> of Net::SMTP shipped with perl until v5.21.5~169 (Update libnet to
>> CPAN version 3.01, 2014-10-10).
>>
>> Reported-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
[...]
>> +++ b/git-send-email.perl
>> @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ EOF
>>  		}
>>  
>>  		require Net::SMTP;
>> -		my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("1.28");
>> +		my $use_net_smtp_ssl = version->parse($Net::SMTP::VERSION) < version->parse("3.01");
>>  		$smtp_domain ||= maildomain();
>>  
>>  		if ($smtp_encryption eq 'ssl') {
>> -- 
>
> Yes, that solves the problem for me.

Thanks.  Mining through https://github.com/gbarr/perl-libnet, I find

  $ git log -Sstarttls
[...]
  commit b4a7a274a7fe5344c154abc4b3fdd7c446d36370
  Author: Steffen Ullrich <Steffen_Ullrich@xxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Fri May 9 23:15:48 2014 +0200

      SSL and IPv6 support for Net::SMTP
  $ git show b4a7a274a7fe5344c154abc4b3fdd7c446d36370
[...]
  diff --git a/Net/SMTP.pm b/Net/SMTP.pm
  index 705b5c5..fcc124f 100644
  --- a/Net/SMTP.pm
  +++ b/Net/SMTP.pm
  @@ -18,7 +18,31 @@ use Net::Config;
 
   $VERSION = "2.33";
[...]
  $ git log -p --ancestry-path b4a7a274a7fe5344c154abc4b3fdd7c446d36370..HEAD  -- Net/SMTP.pm
[...]
  commit 67b37d5c7118f9af50e5a5a00c242992caba3b8d
  Author: Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Date:   Mon Jun 2 14:13:55 2014 +0100

      Bump $VERSION in changed modules

  diff --git a/Net/SMTP.pm b/Net/SMTP.pm
  index 4496f6f..9dfaadf 100644
  --- a/Net/SMTP.pm
  +++ b/Net/SMTP.pm
  @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ use IO::Socket;
   use Net::Cmd;
   use Net::Config;
   
  -$VERSION = "2.34";
  +$VERSION = "2.35";
   
   # Code for detecting if we can use SSL
   my $ssl_class = eval {

I think 2.35 is the correct minimum version.

Jonathan