Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.6 Severity: normal
----- Forwarded message from Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:35:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: install-info vs. perl 5.8 To: Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, Jack Howarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > [CC me if you reply to debian-dpkg] > > So... apparently, because of changes in Perl, an existing bug has become > much more easily triggered. It won't be fixed without a major regex > rewrite. Thus, I think it's reasonable to work around it. The patch even > improves the performance of install-info at no loss of functionality... > > --- /usr/sbin/install-info 2002-07-14 16:19:49.000000000 -0400 > +++ install-info 2002-09-05 13:08:05.000000000 -0400 > @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ > } > > close(IF); &checkpipe; > - if ($asread =~ m/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){2,}/) { > + if ($asread =~ m/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){2}/) { > $infoentry= $asread; > $multiline= 1; > $fileinentry = $2; > > > This changes the value if $fileinentry, potentially, but it's dead on this > code path anyway. It'll always be reset in the if (length ($infoentry)) > block below. Sound reasonable? Refile this as a bug, and then I'll upload .8. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
