t/00_prelim.t fails with perl 5.40

[eserte]

With perl 5.40.0 (and some development versions before, starting from 5.39.8) the test suite fails:

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/perl5.40.0/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
Changing use VERSION while another use VERSION is in scope is deprecated, and will become fatal in Perl 5.44 at /home/cpansand/.cpan/build/2024071717/App-diff_spreadsheets-1.022-1/t/../bin/diff_spreadsheets line 12.

# Failed test 'status==0 for diff_spreadsheets emptyfile emptyfile'
# at t/00_prelim.t line 40.
Bailout called.  Further testing stopped:  (Bail On Fail)
# Tests were run but no plan was declared and done_testing() was not seen.
# Looks like your test exited with 255 after test #3.
# Seeded srand with seed '20240717' from local date.
t/00_prelim.t ............ 
Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Failed 1/3 subtests 
Can't use an undefined value as a subroutine reference at /usr/perl5.40.0/lib/5.40.0/TAP/Harness.pm line 612.
*** Error code 255

[andk]

My interpretation of these fails is that Spreadsheet-Edit has the key. Statistical analysis of my smokers says:

****************************************************************
Regression 'mod:Spreadsheet::Edit'
****************************************************************
Name                   Theta          StdErr     T-stat
[0='const']           1.0000          0.0000    86067209305858032.00
[1='eq_1000.018']            -1.0000          0.0000    -21516802326464512.00
[2='eq_1000.019']            -1.0000          0.0000    -32530347408663480.00

R^2= 1.000, N= 37, K= 3
****************************************************************

which can be read as: all tests so far with Spreadsheet-Edit 1000.018 and 1000.019 are FAILs, all tests with any other version are PASSes.

As illustration a sample fail report with perl 5.28.2: http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/09277338-8ad0-11ef-9a26-590a30c14e7e