On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:56:12PM +0100, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: > On Mo, 19 Sep 2022, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > The bug is not specific to any Perl versions but seems to be fully > > contained in Math::BigInt / Math::BigFloat. The versions of those > > modules that ship with Perl 5.34.0 (Math::BigInt 1.999818) and Perl > > 5.36.0 (Math::BigInt 1.999830) are not affected by the bug, but you > > have the newer separate libmath-bigint-perl package installed where the > > bug triggers. > > > > It seems to have regressed upstream around 1.999832 (where it started > > to spit errors) and 1.999834 (where the errors became infinite recursion.) > > The first version in Debian that had the bug was 1.999835-1, which > > fits your upgrade timeline. > > > > So I'm reassigning this once more. Also raising the severity as this looks > > rather Bad. > > Since it first wasn't clear to me (and maybe others): There are two > versions of Math::BigInt available in bookworm at the moment: > - 1.999830 in perl-modules-5.36 > - 1.999837 in libmath-bigint-perl > > Since 1.999837 breaks at least ipcalc, it may be better to remove > libmath-bigint-perl 1.999837 from bookworm than releasing with a > broken version. > > Since this means a fallback to 1.999830 from perl-modules-5.36, this > should not be an issue.
Package: libmath-bigint-gmp-perl Version: 1.6011-2+b1 Depends: ..., libmath-bigint-perl (>= 1.999831) > Greetings > Roland cu Adrian
