Package: packagesearch Version: 1.2 Severity: important For a few months I've been unable to start packagesearch on one system I use (but not the other!). I keep hoping the misbehavior will go away, but it hasn't.
$ packagesearch & [1] 12326 $ Loaded plugin: Apt Plugins Loaded plugin: Debtags Plugins Bug loading vocabulary! [format::html] became [format::format::] I don't think I was seeing that particular error message before. But it always crashes before the end of loading the plugins. It's possible this started around the time the debtags system entered the mainstream. Perhaps this has something to do, or is caused by the problem noted in debtags' README.Debian: ------------------------------------------------------------- At the moment of this release, a bug in libapt-pkg-perl (bug #186104) causes an harmless segfault on exit when some libapt-pkg-perl functions are used by a perl script. If you use the "related" command of debtags, or run the mkbrowser example script, you are likely to see this segfault happening. The segfault happens after the script has finished, when the destructors are called. Maybe I should have the scripts terminate with `exec "/bin/true"' or `exec "/bin/false"' so that the destructors are not called. However I hope that the problem in libapt-pkg-perl will get fixed soon. What is important is that the segfault does not affect the program output. The output of "debtags related" is not truncated by the segfault, and you get it all regardless of the error. --------------------------------------------- Also, possibly related, I get this regularly: ------------------------------------- # debtags update Get:1 http://people.debian.org/~enrico/tags/tags-current.gz [200kB] Get:2 http://people.debian.org/~enrico/tags/vocabulary.gz [8138B] Fetched 208kB in 2s (92.5kB/s) Reading tag data and vocabulary for http://people.debian.org/~enrico/tags/... Writing system vocabulary... Writing merged tag database... Segmentation fault ---------------------------------------------- So maybe this should go to debtags? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27advncdfs Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages packagesearch depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5 0.5.28.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.2-6.2 KDE core libraries ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdebtags0 0.9.9 Unified access to Debtags and APT ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.4-3 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtagcoll0 0.99.1-1 Functions used to manipulate tagge ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m Versions of packages packagesearch recommends: ii apt-file 2.0.6 APT package searching utility -- c ii debtags 0.99.4 Enables support for package tags -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
