-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi there,
Am 01.02.2013 22:56, schrieb Russ Allbery: > Julien Cristau <[email protected]> writes: >> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:18:41 +0100, Jan Wagner wrote: > >>> nagios-snmp-plugins (1.1.1-8) unstable; urgency=low > >>> * Add 10_fix_net_snmp_version.dpatch - Fixing Net::SNMP version >>> (Closes: #699413) > >> Why isn't that a bug in Net::SNMP? > > Yes, Net::SNMP is relying on UNIVERSAL::VERSION to convert > v-strings to numbers, which is not happening in this case for some > reason. I suspect Net::SNMP has been bitten by one of the changes > in Perl v-string handling. There is code in Net::SNMP to try to > work around this, but it only triggers with Perl 5.9 and earlier. > I searched through perl*delta for a while, but I can't figure out > what changed or exactly what's going on. (v-strings have always > been rather weird.) > > Note that changing the comparison to lt is effectively the same as > removing the comparison entirely if the Net::SNMP version always > begins with v, since 4 is always going to be lt any string starting > with v. But maybe the old version that this is checking against > didn't use v in the version number. okay ... the question is now: How should we fix the issue in wheezy? Should we update nagios-snmp-plugins with the proposed changes or will this going to be fixed anyhow? Many thanks, Jan. - -- Never write mail to <[email protected]>, you have been warned! - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d-- s+: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E--- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI D+ G++ e++ h---- r+++ y++++ - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFRDlT99u6Dud+QFyQRAo81AJ9HcYTnMCf3ewTPMORKVCZ1E/pCTQCeM7FB hajPRX+m3kMZZMH6cb7EqaM= =vZYW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
