Package: perl Version: 5.10.0-11 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
debian makes it impossible to install perls in other prefixes by forcing libperl.so (a private library that should not be in the default search path) into /usr/lib, where it clashes with every other libperl. To be precise, the issue is that libperl is not abi-compatible with all other libperl's on the same sytem. Perl itself correctly manages this by not putting it's config-dependent libraries in the default search path, but into an architetcure and installation specific subdirectory in it's library dir. Unfortunately, debian completely breaks this mechanism by moving it into /usr/lib, where it clashes with all other libperls on the same system, as /usr/lib is alwas in the default linker search path. i.e. -L/opt/perl/lib/CORE -lperl will link against the correct perl library (here in /opt/perl/lib) on every system except on debian, as debian puts the libperl into the default library search path, when libperl was never intended to be put there. The fix is simply to not override perl's management mechanism that deals corretcly with it and putting the perl library into the corretc directory. If libperl.so.5.* MUST reside in /usr/lib (debian policy says so) then at the very least the linker libs (.a and .so) must be moved out of the default library path. As it is, it isn't possible to install another perl in the same system as debian, and the reason is the (unneeded) breaking of the mechanism pwerl uses to separate it's libraries by debian. (this is especially bad as debian uses some extremely bad choices for configuration, such as enabling the windows process emulation on unix, which serves no purpose except slow down perl considerably for no gain whatsoever on unix, so compiling one's own is practically required) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages perl depends on: hi libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.6 4.6.21-10 Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [ ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 GNU dbm database routines (runtime ii perl-base 5.10.0-11 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis ii perl-modules 5.10.0-11 Core Perl modules Versions of packages perl recommends: ii netbase 4.32 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii perl-doc 5.10.0-10 Perl documentation -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
