Bug#759329: libnet-dns-perl: lintian fails with "Too late to run INIT block"

Axel Beckert abe at debian.org
Tue Aug 26 17:52:20 UTC 2014


Control: reassign -1 lintian 2.5.25
Control: retitle -1 lintian: Too late to run INIT block at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Net/DNS.pm line 209.
Control: severity -1 normal

Dear Lintian Hackers,

the following is likely not an issue with the checked package but with
lintian itself:

Axel Beckert wrote:
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2014-08-26 12:55:15)
> > > running lintian (against libfurl-perl, if that matters) fails:
> > > 
> > > jonas at bastian:~$ lintian *.changes
> > > Too late to run INIT block at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Net/DNS.pm line 209.
> > 
> > Whoops, sorry - doesn't fail, that package simply had no lintian issues 
> > (I wrongly assumed it was a binary-arch package with hardening flaws).
> 
> I saw that with other (IIRC non-perl) packages, too. Looks like a
> lintian issue with the new Net::DNS or the new Perl 5.20 or a
> combination thereof.

I saw it with the zsh package just uploaded to experimental, too:

% lintian /var/cache/pbuilder/result/zsh_5.0.5-dev-3-1_allonly.changes
Too late to run INIT block at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Net/DNS.pm line 209.
[...]

I'm reassigning to lintian hence. Even if the message comes from
Net::DNS, Net::DNS's recent disruptive changes IIRC may require some
changes to code using it to work properly with current versions of
Net::DNS. (Feel free to correct me if I got that wrong.)

		Regards, Axel
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