Bug#835442: libparams-classify-perl: XS version segfaults under mod_perl; please consider building as pure perl

[Ivan Kohler]

Package: libparams-classify-perl
Version: 0.013-6
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Hi,

Using this module in a mod_perl environment, even using mpm_prefork (and thus
not threads), we get a segfault immediately.  Possibly related to
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72743

Building a local package without the .xs portion of the module works, and we
don't see any performance change in our usage.

Since:
- "Silent segfault" is not a failure case that Perl end-developers typically
  expect or know how to diagnose further
- It is difficult and time-consuming to bisect an application's 
  dependencies to find the problematic module

May I respectfully suggest that we build this module without the XS 
portion (i.e. as an arch-independant package) ?

Thanks for considering this change.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libparams-classify-perl depends on:
ii  perl  5.22.2-3

libparams-classify-perl recommends no packages.

libparams-classify-perl suggests no packages.

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