Bug#564074: /usr/sbin/ftpmirror: Segfaults on startup

[Eugene V. Lyubimkin]

severity 564074 important
thanks

Niko Tyni wrote:
> I'm attaching a testcase. The bug seems to have crept in with 5.10.1
> and is still present in bleadperl.
Nice work for producing this short test-case!

> I'm not going to start a severity war, we'll do our best to fix this for
> the release anyway. I'll just note that `important' has traditionally
> been the severity for perl bugs that crash the interpreter and don't
> affect many packages.
> Neither `grave' or `critical' fit the bill IMO. The ftpmirror package
> is very much related to perl which rules out `critical', and perl is not
> unusable (or mostly so) for everybody, otherwise we'd have got a lot
> more bug reports.
> 
> If Eugene thinks this should be RC he's can of course set it to `serious'
> as a maintainer.
I thought like this too when I initially set the severity to 
'important', so I'm setting it again.