Package: libpam-runtime Version: 1.1.8-3.3 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear Maintainer,
% /usr/sbin/pam_getenv foo Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated, passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(?<!\\)\${ <-- HERE ([^}]+)}/ at /usr/sbin/pam_getenv line 78. % /usr/sbin/pam_getenv-patched foo % diff -u /usr/sbin/pam_getenv /usr/sbin/pam_getenv-patched --- /usr/sbin/pam_getenv 2016-05-18 02:19:59.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/sbin/pam_getenv-patched 2016-09-18 21:26:13.747245752 +0200 @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ my ($val) = @_; return undef unless $val; die "Cannot handle PAM items\n" if /(?<!\\)\@/; - $val =~ s/(?<!\\)\${([^}]+)}/$ENV{$1}||""/eg; + $val =~ s/(?<!\\)\$\{([^}]+)}/$ENV{$1}||""/eg; return $val; } The lines above show that /usr/sbin/pam_getenv issues a warning from perl. With my patched version the warning is fixed. The diff showing what my patch did. The patch is backwards compatible to any perl. My perl is: % dpkg -l perl Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===================-==============-==============-=========================================== ii perl 5.22.2-5 amd64 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Repor On my system I saw this warning during the installation of postgresql-9.5. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libpam-runtime depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.3 libpam-runtime recommends no packages. libpam-runtime suggests no packages. -- debconf information: libpam-runtime/title: libpam-runtime/profiles: unix, systemd libpam-runtime/override: false libpam-runtime/conflicts: libpam-runtime/no_profiles_chosen: