Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-08-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 00:52:44 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > The only perl scripts provided by Essential packages are > > /usr/bin/scriptreplay This one comes from bsdutils, and it's fairly short (around 30 lines with comments). > /usr/bin/chkdupexe And this one is a bit longer, but still shor

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-08-20 Thread Niko Tyni
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 08:11:05PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes ("Bug#489132: lenny release notes, upgrade dpkg > first"): > > To work-around a problem that can happen in the perl 5.10 upgrade (see > > #479711), the perl scripts contained in dpkg (update-alternatives, > > dpk

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-08-03 Thread Niko Tyni
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:17:47PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > > * This problem is clearly release critical. I don't think documenting > > a release critical bug of this severity in the release notes is > > acceptable. Furthermore, the proposed w

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-07-03 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is why I suggested to integrate liblocale-gettext-perl in perl-base > itself. This would be the simplest/nicest solution IMO. It would always be > synchronized with the current perl. > > See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-07-03 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > Here is a summary of the problem: FWIW, the summary is right according to my understanding. > * This problem is clearly release critical. I don't think documenting > a release critical bug of this severity in the release notes is > acceptable. Furth

Re: Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-07-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Ian Jackson wrote: > * Suppressing lazy symbol resolution may work in this case, but it > is not correct. Lazy symbol resolution should be supressed while in eval regardless of the method which we use to resolve this problem. Non-recoverable failures from code in eval should

Perl symbol problem - release critical (Re: Bug#489132)

2008-07-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Bug#489132: lenny release notes, upgrade dpkg first"): > To work-around a problem that can happen in the perl 5.10 upgrade (see > #479711), the perl scripts contained in dpkg (update-alternatives, > dpkg-divert) have been modified... but for the work-around to be used, the