Bug#528332: memory leak on perl 5.10

[Niko Tyni]

severity 528332 important
thanks

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 03:05:41PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> About severity: This bug touches a lot of perl modules and perl
> programs. Even a few modules which were installed by me and perl
> standard modules use map more than 3000 times:
> 
> $ find /usr/share/perl /usr/share/perl5 -name \*.pm|xargs grep '[^[:alpha:]]map[^[:alpha:]]'|wc -l
> 3364
> $ find /usr/share/perl /usr/share/perl5 -name \*.pm|wc -l
> 3849
> 
> roughly: ~ 90% of all modules use map (which has memory leak)

(Your maths are wrong, you're counting the total number of lines with
map and comparing it with the total number of modules. But never mind.)

> I think, this bug touches all (majority) programs/scripts which
> use perl. Of course part of them are easy scripts which work not
> long time. But many people use as program as mod_perl, etc. 
> 
> If i am wrong, please change severity.

OK, downgrading. Quoting http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities :

important
    a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package,
    without rendering it completely unusable to everyone.

which fits this perfectly.

Anyhow, the severity doesn't really matter, I think this might still
be eligible for a stable point release.

I'll upload a fixed package to unstable once -22 is in testing, and
will consider stable after that.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org