[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#683876: Bug#683876: icinga-common: disable use_embedded_perl_implicitly per default

Alexander Wirt formorer at debian.org
Sun Aug 5 06:39:02 UTC 2012


tag 683876 wontfix
thanks

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> Package: icinga-common
> Version: 1.7.1-2
> Severity: wishlis
> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Debian diverts from the upstream default and uses enable_embedded_perl=1.
> This is a good thing actually.
> 
> But I would recommend to then use: use_embedded_perl_implicitly=0
> (currenly 1).
> 
> By that (AFAIU) only such Perl scripts explicitly marked for the
> embedded Perl interpreter will get interpreted by it (and all others
> by the native one).
> 
> 
> This seems to be more save, as the embedded Perl interpreter has several
> issues.
We have this for years and I don't think I changing this would be sane now as
several people rely on it. If a plugin is borken it should be marked in the
plugin.

Alex



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