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and subject line Bug#822463: fixed in perl 5.24.0-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #822463,
regarding perl: perlbug reports get rejected by exim4 due to long lines in
'perl -V'
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Package: perl
Version: 5.22.1-10
Not quite sure of the correct severity.
My 'perlbug' report was rejected by the local exim4 MTA with
2016-04-24 18:28:06 1auLx8-0003Rd-1l ** [email protected] R=smarthost
T=remote_smtp_smarthost: message is too big
(transport limit = 1)
Turns out 'transport limit = 1' actually means
'line length > 998 characters', as defined in
/etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost
with this:
# Refuse to send any messsage with over-long lines, which could have
# been received other than via SMTP. The use of message_size_limit to
# enforce this is a red herring.
[...]
message_size_limit = ${if > {$max_received_linelength}{998} {1}{0}}
which seems to be the default configuration on Debian.
Now, perlbug includes the equivalent of 'perl -V' output (Config::myconfig())
in the report, and
% perl -V | grep config_args|wc
1 48 1001
So it looks like perlbug is broken on stretch/sid with the default exim4
configuration, and exim4 is the default MTA on Debian AFAIK. I think we
need to fix this.
Fortunately this was lower on jessie so this only concerns stretch and
sid. On the other hand, Ubuntu just released an LTS version with 5.22.1-9
which is presumably affected too (though I don't think they use exim4
by default.)
The options I see are
- make exim4 handle longer lines
- somehow shorten the longest line, probably by changing the way we call
Configure
- make perlbug split or shorten overly long lines
I think the third option is the best one from a robustness point of view.
The 'correct' fix would be to teach perlbug to use MIME quoted-printable
or something like that, but that's probably overkill. Maybe just splitting
Config::myconfig() results where necessary and adding a warning to the
docs would be enough?
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Niko Tyni [email protected]
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Source: perl
Source-Version: 5.24.0-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Niko Tyni <[email protected]> (supplier of updated perl package)
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Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 22:32:32 +0300
Source: perl
Binary: perl-base perl-doc perl-debug libperl5.24 libperl-dev perl-modules-5.24
perl
Architecture: source
Version: 5.24.0-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Niko Tyni <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Niko Tyni <[email protected]>
Description:
libperl-dev - Perl library: development files
libperl5.24 - shared Perl library
perl - Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-base - minimal Perl system
perl-debug - debug-enabled Perl interpreter
perl-doc - Perl documentation
perl-modules-5.24 - Core Perl modules
Closes: 822463 823861
Changes:
perl (5.24.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
.
[ Niko Tyni ]
* New upstream release.
* Make libperl-dev depend on perl:any of the same version.
This makes sure that versions of headers and libraries match
while keeping cross building possible. (Closes: #823861)
* Wrap long lines in perlbug messages. (Closes: #822463)
.
[ Dominic Hargreaves ]
* Add deprecation warning to bundled version of rename program
(see #735134)
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