Control: clone -1 -2 Control: severity -1 grave Control: severity -2 wishlist Control: reassign -2 perl Control: retitle -2 perl: Please add a versioned Conflicts with backuppc
Hi Andreas, Andreas Feldner wrote: > after a recent update (probably to a Perl library), > a bug in BackupPC leads to it destroying its configuration files > when saved from the BackupPC admin console. Urgs. That's data loss and hence validates an release-critical severity. Hence bumping the severity to "grave". Thanks for the heads up! (I never use the possibility to edit the configuration via the web interface, so I probably wouldn't have noticed myself.) > This bug is reported upstream: > https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/issues/466 The upstream report mentions Data::Dumper, which is indeed a Perl library and part of the perl Perl core, i.e. part of the libperl5.36 Debian package. Since Data::Dumper hasn't been mentioned in /usr/share/doc/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz (recently), this must have crept in with the bump to the 5.36 upstream release in June. The upstream bug report mentions Data::Dumper version 2.182 and according to corelist -a Data::Dumper | egrep '2\.18[123]|v5\.3[456]\.' there was indeed a version bump between Perl 5.34 (Data::Dumper 2.179) and 5.36 (Data::Dumper 2.184) which included 2.182. So this confirms that the Perl upstream bump in June is the cause for this issue. > A fix seems to be available and extremely easy to apply (not > verified myself), but is not yet part of an upstream release. It indeed looks easy to apply. Will provide a backuppc package update soon after this bugreport. Niko and Dominic: Can you update the perl package similar to what you did for "duck" recently? Maybe best only after I updated the backuppc package. (I've cloned this bug report accordingly for that purpose.) I suggest either a Conflicts with "backuppc (<= 4.4.0-6+b1)" or with "backuppc (<< 4.4.0-7~)", whatever deems you more fitting. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE