Bug#798096: usrmerge: Conversion fails if libautodie-perl package is installed

[Niko Tyni]

severity 808629 serious
block 808629 with 798096
block 796345 by 808629
affects 808629 usrmerge
affects 798096 usrmerge
thanks

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 06:16:10PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 05:06:36PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Dec 21, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks. I suspect the critical severity is a pun (as in "breaks the
> > > whole system() [call]"), but in case it isn't, please provide some
> > > justification. Downgrading for now.
> > It breaks unrelated software, so I think that it fits...
> 
> A script using the autodie module is not unrelated software.

However, as this perl regression completely breaks usrmerge (whose
postinst now fails at installation time), I guess some part of this
should be release critical.  I'm marking the clone against the perl
package that for now, although I'm sure usrmerge could be changed to
work around this if it turns out to be necessary.

So transitioning Perl 5.22 from unstable to testing would break usrmerge
in testing, which means this is an issue for the whole transition.

Once there's a fix, the separate libautodie-perl needs to be fixed
first so that installing it over the Perl core version will not
reintroduce the bug.

FWIW I made some progress on the upstream ticket yesterday but
it's not quite there yet. It would have been nice to hear about
this earlier.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org