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regarding snort: Unnecessary use of Perl in preinst
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Package: snort
Version: 2.9.15.1-6
Tags: patch
Dear maintainers of snort,
`snort.preinst` uses Perl to get the value of options in
`etc/snort/snort.common.parameters`. Such simple processing can be
achieved also with a very similar grep invocation and without cat.
A patch to fix this issue is available at
https://salsa.debian.org/jfs/pkg-snort/-/merge_requests/1
Here is a preview of the patch
diff --git a/debian/snort.preinst b/debian/snort.preinst
index 4fc54973..85bdfcf6 100644
--- a/debian/snort.preinst
+++ b/debian/snort.preinst
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ check_parameters() {
[ -r "$DEFAULT" ] && return
# Extract our values from there
- logdir=`cat $PARAMETERS | perl -ne 'print $1 if /-l\s+([\w\/]+)/'`
- user_snort=`cat $PARAMETERS | perl -ne 'print $1 if /-u\s+(\w+)/'`
- group_snort=`cat $PARAMETERS | perl -ne 'print $1 if /-g\s+(\w+)/'`
+ logdir=`grep -P -o -- '-l\s+\K([\w\/]+)' $PARAMETERS`
+ user_snort=`grep -P -o -- '-u\s+\K(\w+)' $PARAMETERS`
+ group_snort=`grep -P -o -- '-g\s+\K(\w+)' $PARAMETERS`
extraparms=`cat $PARAMETERS | sed -e
's/-l[[:space:]]\+[\/[:alnum:]]\+[[:space:]]\+//g;
s/-u[[:space:]]\+[[:alnum:]]\+[[:space:]]*//g;
s/-g[[:space:]]\+[[:alnum:]]\+[[:space:]]*//g;'`
echo "Creating new $DEFAULT configuration based on $PARAMETERS"
cat <<EOF >$DEFAULT
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Gioele Barabucci
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.9.15.1-6+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package snort has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1079286
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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