Bug#871562: perl-base: Perl binary crashes with SIGSEGV when used for SVN access in "git svn" tests

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 11:16:03AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote:
> Package: perl-base
> Version: 5.24.1-3+deb9u1
> Severity: normal

> when I run the test suite (Git (the VCS, master branch), the perl binary
> sometimes crashes in one of its tests. I used the commands below to reproduce
> the problem (just let it run, it'll crash eventually):

Thanks for the thorough report. For now, I'll just note that there's been
somewhat similar bugs in the past on the libsvn-perl (src:subversion)
side that git-svn uses, see at least #780246 and #534763. I don't see
the SVN bindings in your backtrace so it may be something else, but in
that case a test case without SVN in the mix would be good of course.

Anyway, I'll see if I can reproduce this when I find the time.

> I had to recompile the perl package locally to get the details backtrace: I
> failed to find the debug symbols of the perl package here:
> deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ stretch-debug main non-free contrib

They are in the perl-debug package in the main archive, mostly for
historical reasons.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org