Bug#912695: apt-show-versions: breaks "apt-get update" and uninstallable after Perl 5.28 upgrade

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 09:29:14AM +0100, Christoph Martin wrote:
 
> Version 0.22.9 introduced a setting of recursion_limit_hast to 65536,
> but I still get reports of user, who need a higher value.

Yeah, I guess it depends on the number of apt sources.

Why don't you just disable the checks with the value of -1 ?
AIUI they are there to detect circular data structures, and
apt-show-versions doesn't have any.

> If this needs a longer standing solution, I could introduce a config
> file for this setting.

I don't think that should be necessary. Disabling the checks
seems better.

> The default values for Storage.pm are different on all platforms and
> apparently depends on the build environment:

> So this might also be an issue with reproducible builds.

Sure, I think the current Storable behaviour could and should be better
and needs to be discussed upstream. Just haven't got around to starting
that discussion yet, sorry.
-- 
Niko