Package: cvsweb Version: 3:3.0.6-7 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello,
It appears that cvsweb has some issues with Perl 5.18 (5.14 works fine). Specifically, it errors out with a slew of syntax errors when invoked from Apache: [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058676 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: "my" variable $tmp masks earlier declaration in same statement at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1340. [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058741 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1197, near "$v qw(hidecvsroot hidenonreadable)" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058767 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: Global symbol "$v" requires explicit package name at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1199. [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058792 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: Global symbol "$v" requires explicit package name at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1199. [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058811 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1278, near "}" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058830 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1291, near "}" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058848 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1297, near "}" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058867 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1304, near "}" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058885 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1314, near "}" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058904 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1338, near "}" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058925 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: syntax error at /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb line 1340, near ""$tmp,v" }" [Tue Dec 24 09:57:35.058940 2013] [cgi:error] [pid 17746] [client 10.3.254.229:58703] AH01215: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cvsweb has too many errors. As a result, cvsweb produces an HTTP 500 error when accessed from a web browser. The NetBSD folks have worked around this by changing two lines in cvsweb: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/www/cvsweb/patches/patch-cvsweb.cgi.diff?r1=1.1.2.1&r2=1.1.2.2&f=h The below patch does the same thing and is based on the version of cvsweb that is included in the Debian package: --- cvsweb.orig 2013-12-24 09:58:09.333520125 -0500 +++ cvsweb 2013-12-24 09:58:50.222171067 -0500 @@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ <legend>General options</legend> <input type="hidden" name="copt" value="1" /> EOF - for my $v qw(hidecvsroot hidenonreadable) { + for my $v (qw(hidecvsroot hidenonreadable)) { printf(qq{<input type="hidden" name="%s" value="%s" />\n}, $v, $input{$v} || 0); } @@ -2953,7 +2953,7 @@ print "<br />\n"; print '<i>'; - if (defined @mytz) { + if (@mytz) { my ($est) = $mytz[(localtime($date{$_}))[8]]; print scalar localtime($date{$_}), " $est</i> ("; } else { Thanks! - Mark -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cvsweb depends on: ii apache2 2.4.6-3 ii apache2-bin [httpd] 2.4.6-3 ii cvs 2:1.12.13+real-11 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii libmime-tools-perl 5.503-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii rcs 5.9.1-2 cvsweb recommends no packages. Versions of packages cvsweb suggests: pn cvsgraph <none> pn enscript <none> pn libmime-types-perl <none> ii perl [libcompress-zlib-perl] 5.18.1-4 ii zip 3.0-7 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
