Package: pkg-perl-autopkgtest Version: 0.34 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512
I just had an issue with our use.t and debian/tests/pkg-perl/use-whitelist, and after reading the code, it seems to me that there is a bug (since forever). What I did was to add a second warning I wanted to ignore to use-whitelist, and autopkgtest still failed, so I added a few print statements to use.t and found that it only had one word from the whitelist file. Now I understand that this is used as a regexp, still this looks fishy to me: Going back in the code: The $whitelist variable as it's finally used: 106 @out = grep { !/$whitelist/ } @out if defined $whitelist; Here it's defined: 85 my $whitelist = getwhitelist(); Which is 76 sub getwhitelist { 77 my $whitelist = 'debian/tests/pkg-perl/use-whitelist'; 78 my $ret; 79 $ret = read_conffile($whitelist) if ( -f $whitelist ); 80 $ret; 81 } And in read_conffile (stripped down a bit): 38 open(M, "<", $conffile) 39 or BAIL_OUT("$conffile exists but can't be read"); 40 while (<M>) { 41 chomp; 42 next if /^\s*#/; 43 /(\S+)/ and $ret = $1, last; 44 } 45 close M; 46 BAIL_OUT("can't find anything in $conffile") 47 if !defined $ret; 48 } 49 return $ret; My reading of the while loop is that in the end $ret contains only the first non-whitespace sequence in the first non-comment line. Now even if only reading one line is ok, as this is used as a regexp in line 106, /(\S+)/ seems a bit, hm, minimalistic. Am I right in reading the code, and am I right that this is a bug? Cheers, gregor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE0eExbpOnYKgQTYX6uzpoAYZJqgYFAmI9+vxfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEQx RTEzMTZFOTNBNzYwQTgxMDREODVGQUJCM0E2ODAxODY0OUFBMDYACgkQuzpoAYZJ qgaISBAAvWtD5L7XHK0pXqNao47O4pUmCeCqeWZbGesVwCgVdZGMdzN5VtgcFdpZ uaV3Uh6q4jIeQDbk/kMO01FExVIUHaM5dH8bCKnmoZGkqWe233nT6tB3LSc6XUjt oiL2S7u1JEosLeO5O/e26E6eOxsRGwX1UnRrdRU90OFAX1YphmHfY01tW8QSHg8/ g8bviUOxC8HlQ8IBP3i5opgQ2p0cg/Q5HWYpSlCQ9hd7zoK8YzvBmE97yqOOXEl8 Wvp40tGU1/UwyeoCryYa8rFGa460im0q1CQkcRfpWZm9DzteAFG/FI6qaDNxPShE AuJ7Pmducdud5vya2nEAB26Tf3vEjf7JWRRpo1z8wmAWkFlysUadDyWib02e3kYw dXKSnvgXCqEeoi30wlxFpUlgkOFdmPtrQulvGE8Xgx8MHfrwuNcxTEUOgDVeMF6j ID58Amu1xPdv77jdlOXeFdjY2myp0cSHJSEaLLS/8fQTZZsa30JFA843BpGRLvuh gfWZuJrD1DnnIzOk49Ggs6wRNiPWqUmIA1cE9wXpcI51AI4HcZPaGG3IkxPgYYuQ MoiqtZ6Fi4a1bKFYAn5PyyL/uuQv1oaFLsWZtcLZUO6T37ZkChVKfWoH1jV+9fj0 pom0LMg2Er2qz+N24AESvpvBXSdB3ZDa+TXqi82bo3Rih8NMilg= =2AVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----