Bug#498855: wordnet broken in etch after security update

[Andreas Tille]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Riku Saikkonen wrote:

> Package: wordnet
> Version: 1:2.1-4+etch1
> Tags: etch
>
> I upgraded wordnet using the recent security update in etch:
>
> [UPGRADE] wordnet 1:2.1-4 -> 1:2.1-4+etch1
> [UPGRADE] wordnet-base 1:2.1-4 -> 1:2.1-4+etch1
>
> After this upgrade, most of the features of the "wn" command-line
> client don't work. Only -over and -famln seem to work, everything else
> I tried displays only two lines of text. For instance:
>
> ,----
> | $ wn work
> |
> | Information available for noun work
> |         -hypen          Hypernyms
> |         -hypon, -treen  Hyponyms & Hyponym Tree
> |         -synsn          Synonyms (ordered by estimated frequency)
> |         -partn          Has Part Meronyms
> |         -meron          All Meronyms
> |         -derin          Derived Forms
> |         -domnn          Domain
> |         -famln          Familiarity & Polysemy Count
> |         -coorn          Coordinate Terms (sisters)
> |         -grepn          List of Compound Words
> |         -over           Overview of Senses
> |
> | Information available for verb work
> |         -antsv          Antonyms
> |         -hypev          Hypernyms
> |         -hypov, -treev  Hyponyms & Hyponym Tree
> |         -entav          Verb Entailment
> |         -synsv          Synonyms (ordered by estimated frequency)
> |         -causv          Cause to
> |         -deriv          Derived Forms
> |         -domnv          Domain
> |         -famlv          Familiarity & Polysemy Count
> |         -framv          Verb Frames
> |         -coorv          Coordinate Terms (sisters)
> |         -simsv          Synonyms (grouped by similarity of meaning)
> |         -grepv          List of Compound Words
> |         -over           Overview of Senses
> |
> | No information available for adj work
> |
> | No information available for adv work

Well, this is normal operation.  Wn without any additional option behaves
like this.

> | $ wn work -over
> |
> | Overview of noun work
> |
> | The noun work has 7 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
> |
> | 1. (435) work -- (activity directed toward making or doing something;
> |          "she checked several points needing further work")
> [... and so on, this is correct ...]

Yes, this is correct.

> | $ wn work -hypen
> |
> | Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun work
> |
> | 7 senses of work$
> | $ wn work -antsv
> |
> | Antonyms of verb work
> |
> | 1 of 27 senses of work$
> | $ wn work -coorv
> |
> | Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb work
> |
> | 24 of 27 senses of work$
> `----
>
> I think this is the same bug as #497649,

Yes, this smells exatly like this bug - but I as the maintainer see
no chance to fix this - it is the duty of stable-security team if I'm
not misleaded.

> which was fixed in lenny a
> while ago. Any chance of fixing the bug also for etch, as the current
> wordnet in etch is almost useless after the security update?
>
> (I submitted a new bug instead of trying to reopen bug #497649 for
> etch only, because I'm not familiar enough with the bug tracking
> system to do the latter.)

I hope somebody at security at debian.org is able to help out.  I just
informed them about the solution which is available in wordnet svn.

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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