Package: perl-modules Version: 5.18.2-2 Severity: critical Justification: Breaks unreleated software
Dear Maintainer,
IO-Compress 2.060 as bundled with Perl 5.18.2 introduces a regression
over 2.033 (as in Debian wheezy) and older versions like 2.020 in
squeeze: When uncompressing to a filehandle that is connected to an
in-memory string with
open $fh, '>', \$buf
the syswrite() in IO::Uncompress::Base::_rd2 (line 759) fails
with $! set to "Bad file descriptor". In previous versions, print
was used instead which did not have this problem.
This breaks unrelated software, severity set accordingly.
Full reproducer is attached below.
The problem is not limited to gunzip decompression. FWIW, *gzip* to such a
handle still works, also gzip and gunzip *from* a in-memory handle.
Christoph
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip qw(gunzip $GunzipError);
my $buf_out = '';
open my $fh_out, '>', \$buf_out or die $!;
gunzip (
'/usr/share/doc/perl-modules/changelog.Debian.gz',
$fh_out
) or die "Failed: $GunzipError, $!";
print $buf_out;
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.10.39 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages perl-modules depends on:
ii perl 5.18.2-2+b1
Versions of packages perl-modules recommends:
pn libarchive-extract-perl <none>
ii libmodule-pluggable-perl 5.1-1
pn libpod-latex-perl <none>
pn libterm-ui-perl <none>
pn libtext-soundex-perl <none>
Versions of packages perl-modules suggests:
pn libb-lint-perl <none>
pn libcpanplus-dist-build-perl <none>
pn libcpanplus-perl <none>
pn libfile-checktree-perl <none>
pn liblog-message-perl <none>
pn liblog-message-simple-perl <none>
pn libobject-accessor-perl <none>
-- no debconf information
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