Bug#479711: state of #479711

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> Brendan is apparently not active anymore, but it would good to stick on
> something in Squeeze regarding this bug to not hit it when the 5.10 -> 5.12
> transition comes.

$ head -5 /usr/bin/update-alternatives 
#!/usr/bin/perl --

BEGIN { # Work-around for bug #479711 in perl
    $ENV{PERL_DL_NONLAZY} = 1;
}

And same goes for all perl scripts in dpkg itself.

> Raphael, I cannot explain why the first variant doesn't work (Niko, maybe you
> can?), but can you try whether it works if you change from "eval 'use... '" to
> "eval { use... }"?

Why don't you try yourself ? I did everything needed on the dpkg side already.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog