Package: perl-debug Version: 5.8.7-8 Severity: important
Please note, bug 337050 might or might not be related. I also tagged this bug as important, as the perl-debug package is pretty useless as it is. The problem is that debugperl does not come with matching headers: the headers match the installed perl version, while debugperl was configured differently. This causes lots of modules to segfault or abort. Specifically, it's those two changes: "-Dusemymalloc -Uuseshrplib" Among others, this makes debugpelr use a different memory allocator than the compiled perl modules, causing segfaults or worse when a module frees memory allocated by perl or vice versa. Besides, -DDEBUGGING seems to be an obvious choice for debugperl (as this is most commonly associated with the term "debugperl"), but it is missing. So debugperl currently cannot be used together with perl modules (you cannot compile modules for debugpelr as the headers/config is missing, and youc nanot use modules compiled for the non-debug perl), while lacking perls debugging support (which can be used to track down problems in perl code as well as in modules alike). -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages perl-debug depends on: hi libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii perl 5.8.7-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction perl-debug recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
