Package: perl-modules Version: 5.10.0-11 Severity: normal Hi,
This is actually an upstream bug, and I've already filed a CPAN bug report against the libnet package containing two proposed patches - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37700 - yet after a brief discussion on the debian-perl mailing list here's a bug report to let you know about this :) The problem is that Net::FTP does not play nice with FTP servers which close a data connection immediately after sending an error response to a RETR command. This, incidentally, breaks uscan for packages that live on such servers, such as the dante package that I'm in the process of adopting. My CPAN bug report contains a simple test script and two patches, and here's also the "offending" watch file that reports an "Internal server error" since uscan uses LWP::UserAgent->request(), which traps the Perl error raised by the Net::FTP::dataconn problem and reports it thusly: version=3 opts="dversionmangle=s/\.dfsg//" \ ftp://ftp.inet.no/pub/socks/dante-(.*)\.tar\.gz Of course, the best course of action will probably be to wait for Graham Barr to fix the problem upstream in the libnet distribution; this bug report is merely a notification. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=bg_BG.CP1251, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.CP1251 (charmap=CP1251) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages perl-modules depends on: ii perl 5.10.0-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction perl-modules recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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