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[gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:53:00 -0000, Denny de la Haye wrote:

> File::Pid has had a bug since at least 2006, RT here:
> https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18960
> 
> This bug is fatal since Perl 5.12
> 
> As you can see in the comments on RT, there is a simple one-line patch
> that fixes the problem.  I believe the Ubuntu or Debian package
> maintainer used to apply this patch but it seems to have been removed
> recently.  Could it be re-applied please?  :)

There's exactly one version of this package in all Debian and Ubuntu
suites:

 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | squeeze | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | wheezy  | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | jessie  | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | sid     | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | lucid/universe   | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | precise/universe | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | quantal/universe | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | saucy/universe   | source, all
 libfile-pid-perl | 1.01-1 | trusty/universe  | source, all

I have a hard time imagining that the patch was removed in Ubuntu in
general, and especially without changing the version number :)

(And I'm also surprised we haven't seen a bug report about this in
Debian or Ubuntu earlier ...)


So I'm guessing that the problem is elsewhere, like the patch being
not complete or something.


Do you have a minimal testcase that shows the actual problem?


Cheers,
gregor

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