** Description changed:

- On Xenial, various tools fail because of warnings from sprintf that are
- generated on the new Perl version in Xenial.
+ [Impact]
+ 
+ On Xenial, various tools from percona-toolkit fail because of new
+ warnings from sprintf that are generated by the new Perl version in
+ Xenial.
  
  These warnings are fatal because all of the tools set "use strict" and
  "use warnings FATAL => 'all';"
  
- This can be tested simply by parsing any MySQL log with pt-query-digest
+ This can be tested simply by parsing any MySQL log with pt-query-digest,
+ however, it affects many other tools.
  
- * Test Case *
+ [Test Case]
  
  apt-get install mysql-server percona-toolkit # set any root password you 
like, we'll just use the debian.cnf credentials
- mysql  --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf -e "set GLOBAL slow_query_log = 
on, 
+ mysql  --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf -e "set GLOBAL slow_query_log = 
on,
  long_query_time=0.0; select * from mysql.user;"
  pt-query-digest /var/lib/mysql/$(hostname)-slow.log
  
  Result:
  The pipeline caused an error: Pipeline process 5 (iteration) caused an error: 
Redundant argument in sprintf at /usr/bin/pt-query-digest line 2556.
  Terminating pipeline because process 4 (iteration) caused too many errors.
  
- 
  This issue was fixed upstream:
  https://github.com/percona/percona-toolkit/pull/73/
+ 
+ 
+ [Regression Potential] 
+ 
+ The following tools are updated by this patch:
+ pt-diskstats
+ pt-fk-error-logger
+ pt-heartbeat
+ pt-index-usage
+ pt-kill
+ pt-online-schema-change
+ pt-query-digest
+ pt-slave-delay
+ pt-slave-find
+ pt-table-checksum
+ pt-table-sync
+ pt-table-usage
+ pt-upgrade
+ 
+ Generally speaking most of these tools fail to work at all due to this
+ bug, which will limit the regression potential to a reasonable extent.
+ 
+ This patch is taken from upstream and largely updates common code used
+ by all tools in a generic fashion.
+ 
+ However it is difficult to fully test all of the tools, as the test
+ suite is not included in the released binary. I attempted to run the
+ upstream test suite, however there are no instructions on how to do so
+ and I failed in figuring out how to get it to successfully execute.
+ 
+ To that end I submit that it will be difficult to test this patch in a
+ reliable fashion, and would seek feedback on what we should do about
+ that.
+ 
+ [Other Info]
+  
+ The way the upstream percona-toolkit repository works is they have these perl 
modules that are statically "compiled in" to the various tool perl scripts, 
with both the source libraries and that resulting static tool committed to git.
+ 
+ They do not always update every tool when changes are made to those
+ modules. So if you rebuild every tool, even from the same source as the
+ release, you will get unrelated changes to the actual fix.
+ 
+ The source of the package (as released) does not contain the libraries
+ (lib/**) or the tests (t/**) so these are not included in the package
+ patch, in contrast to the upstream git diff.

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  various tools (including pt-query-digest, pt-heartbeat) failing due to
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