Bug#769692: libnet-dns-perl has non-numeric version number 0.80_2

James Bottomley James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com
Sat Nov 15 16:18:12 UTC 2014


Package: libnet-dns-perl
Version: 0.80.2-2
Severity: important

This causes bugs in any package which checks the version; for instance:

/etc/cron.daily/amavisd-new:
Argument "0.80_2" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/AskDNS.pm line 214.
Argument "0.80_2" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 521.
Argument "0.80_2" isn't numeric in numeric ge (>=) at /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Plugin/AskDNS.pm line 214.

The fix is simple, change VERSION in DNS.pm to 0.8002

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libnet-dns-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.19-13
ii  libdigest-hmac-perl         1.03+dfsg-1
ii  libio-socket-inet6-perl     2.72-1
ii  libnet-ip-perl              1.26-1
ii  perl                        5.20.1-2
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.20.1]  5.20.1-2

libnet-dns-perl recommends no packages.

libnet-dns-perl suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- debsums errors found:
debsums: changed file /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Net/DNS.pm (from libnet-dns-perl package)



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