Bug#603686: enc2xs -C launched in / directory generates an error

[Niko Tyni]

tag 603686 confirmed
found 603686 5.10.0-1
found 603686 5.10.1-16
thanks

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:41:24PM +0200, andrejs wrote:
> Subject: perl: enc2xs -C launched in / directory generates an error
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.10.0-19lenny2
> Severity: normal
> 
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
> 
> su -
> cd /
> enc2xs -C
> 
> The application dies with following error
> /etc/perl encountered a second time at
> /usr/share/perl/5.10/File/Find.pm line 567.

Thanks for the report.

This is an unfortunate bug in a Debian specific change in enc2xs and
broke with the 5.10.0 packaging. It's still present in the current
package versions as of 5.10.1-16.

A workaround is to invoke the command somewhere lower in the directory
hierarchy, for example

 cd $(mktemp -d) && enc2xs -C

It's probably too late to fix this for the upcoming Squeeze release,
but I'll make sure that it gets fixed afterwards.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org