Bug#760935: perl: Crashing bug on trivial programs

[Niko Tyni]

tag 760935 unreproducible
severity 760935 important
thanks

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:10:13PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 11:02:19AM +0200, Emmanuel Surleau wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.20.0-6
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> > I have encountered a critical issue with both 5.20.0-6 and 5.20.1~rc2-1 versions
> > of perl.
> > 
> > How to reproduce:
> > 
> >     09/09 10:29 ~/projects/integration_oed % perl -e 'use File::Find;'
> >     zsh: segmentation fault  perl -e 'use File::Find;'
> > 
> > As git-svn crashes systematically with an error code 139, git add -p is out of
> > commission and apt-file crashes as well, I suspect this issue affects a lot more
> > packages (which is also why I set the priority to 'grave').
> 
> Hi, that certainly doesn't crash here. This is most probably a local
> issue. If the perl package was this broken for everyone on amd64, I
> expect we'd have a lot more reports.  As it is, 5.20.0-6 has been in
> sid for ten days and just migrated to testing.

I'm tagging this is unreproducible for now and lowering the severity.
I intend to close it later unless there's reason to believe it's more
than local system corruption.

Please keep 760935 at bugs.debian.org at least cc'd on possible updates.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org