Bug#659240: ftpmirror: fails with Perl 5.14

[Niko Tyni]

tag 659240 patch
thanks

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:18:02PM +0100, Patrice Pillot wrote:
> Package: ftpmirror
> Version: 1.96+dfsg-12
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> Since I upgraded this host to Perl 5.14, ftpmirror fails with the following
> message:
> 
> /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/ftpmirror/auto/Fan/MD5/MD5.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

> This seems really similar to old bug 488162, but since I know Perl not better
> than the Debian build process, I cannot investigate further. Since the package
> has not been updated since Perl 5.14 (as far as I can tell), this may indicate
> it needs some sort of rebuilding.

Thanks for the report. Indeed #488162 was never really fixed. Patch
attached.

Maintainer: once this is fixed, please file a bug against perl to add
a Breaks: entry against the older versions. This is needed to make sure
partial squeeze->wheezy upgrades work.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org
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