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Package: perl
Version: 5.14.2-21
Severity: normal
Hi,
Noticed this under the Lintian test suite:
"""
[...]
t/scripts/changelog-format.t .............................. ok
===( 314;1 0/22 0/? 1/? 0/? 0/? 0/? 5/21 0/? )============Thread
2 terminated abnormally: Can't call method "minimum_explicit_version" on an
undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Test/MinimumVersion.pm line 54.
t/scripts/needs-info-exists.t ............................. ok
[...]
"""
I doubt this is a bug in Test::MinimumVersion because:
* it happens randomly
* last time I saw this problem, it happened in a different script
I believe (but this is a guess) this is related to threads because I
have only seen it in scripts using threads so far (and only in
sections where other threads are active).
Based on my observations, I would guess we are looking at a
race-condition in Perl itself somewhere. That said, I have no idea
where to look for it (or how to verify this assertion).
~Niels
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Version: 5.20.0-1
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 02:52:16PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2015-08-18 14:10, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > [...]
> > Hi Niels,
> >
> > Are you able to say whether this is reproducible on perl 5.20? If not,
> > we should probably just close this bug.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dominic.
> >
>
> I have not experienced this in a while. I highly doubt it exists in any
> Perl version we ship (in Wheezy or newer)
Thanks, closing.
Dominic.
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