Bug#288580: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#288580: logtail: Logtail (not logcheck) needs perl 5.8 (Bug#252078 wrongly fixed)

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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severity 252078 important
tags 252078 patch
thanks

On 05-01-2005 21:19, maximilian attems wrote:
> severity 252078 wishlist

Please do _not_ downgrade the severity: this bug is a violation of
Debian Policy 3.5!


> On Tue, 04 Jan 2005, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> 
>>Bug#252078 was reported against the binary package logtail but "fixed"
>>in logcheck.
> 
> logcheck and logtail are both developed, by the same team.

Yes. I know. And I know that they are both contained in the same
_source_ package.

I explicitly talk about different _binary_ packages.


>>Logtail (and not logcheck) should have a versioned dependency on perl.
> 
> perhaps that can easily be addded,

Sure. Patch provided - I did not think that was necessary, but obviously
I was wrong...


> but more importantly it should be in c and not in perl.

Huh? Could you please explain?


>>Or even better: Use a form of getopts that works on woody as well, to
>>ease backporting!
> 
> 
> care to send a patch?

Who introduced getopts in the code? I'd assume (s)he'd be able to come
up with a much smarter solution than I.

If not, I'll pass it on if I figure out a better approach than simply
avoiding the getopts code change for the upgrade of my woody backport.


 - Jonas

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