Package: interchange Version: 5.2.0-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 3.5
The upstream author emphatically states that Interchange only works with unthreaded Perl. I've run siege tests on the sample data base and confirmed that interchange fails with multiple threads. The package states via debconfig that it requires unthreaded perl, yet there the dependency is for perl >= 5.6.0-16 which is threaded. This is really a broken dependency as no such package exists. There are indications from the mailing list that interchange requires apache1 (probably due to the threaded mod-perl issues). There is no dependency, suggests, recommends for < apache 2 yet a configuration script looks for an apache1 config file. The original issue of unthreaded perl goes back almost 2 years (see bug 199718) Compounding this issue is the fact that there are dependencies in the debian core packages for the threaded perl package. Given that to create a workable system in testing requires running apache1, creating a second unthreaded perl and mod-perl, and extensive editing of the main program to point at these non existent packages, interchange should not be in testing, but only unstable at this time. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages interchange depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy pn libdigest-md5-perl Not found. ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.45-1 A collection of modules that parse pn libmime-base64-perl Not found. ii libsafe-hole-perl 0.08-3.1 Perl module which makes a "hole" i ii liburi-perl 1.30-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii libwww-perl 5.803-4 WWW client/server library for Perl ii logrotate 3.7-2 Log rotation utility ii perl [libstorable-perl] 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
