Package: perl Version: 5.10.0-9 Severity: important Something fairly fundamental appears to have changed about the handling of variable aliasing and subroutine calls that breaks Getopt::Long with sub arguments. Consider the following one-liner, extracted from the lintian frontend:
perl -MGetopt::Long -e 'my $action; sub set_action { $action = $_[0] } Getopt::Long::GetOptions ("setup-lab" => \&set_action); print "$action\n"; $action = "check" unless $action; print "$action\n"' -- --setup-lab Getopt::Long calls set_action with two arguments ('setup-lab' and 1) and $action subsequently stringifies to "setup-lab", but $action appears to be false for the unless check. So it's then reassigned to a different value. It looks like the state of the $action variable is partly aliased to $_[0], supported by the fact that the bug disappears if $action is assigned "$_[0]" instead of just $_[0]. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages perl depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-8 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [ ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii perl-base 5.10.0-9 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis ii perl-modules 5.10.0-9 Core Perl modules Versions of packages perl recommends: ii netbase 4.32 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii perl-doc 5.10.0-9 Perl documentation -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]