Bug#604902: apt-cacher: random segfaults in libperl when clients are accessing cache

[Milan P. Stanic]

On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 09:10, Niko Tyni wrote:
> forwarded 604902  http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=60724
> tag 604902 patch fixed-upstream
> thanks
> 
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:26:18AM +0100, Schoepflin, Markus wrote:
> > No further segmentation faults of apt-cacher have been observed up to
> > now. Looks like the suggested patch does indeed solve the observed
> > problem.
> 
> Great, thanks for the testing! It's too late to get this in the upcoming
> Squeeze release. It's possible that it can make it into the first point
> release (r1) - I'll talk to the release team about that.

I have written application which started to segfault when I upgraded to
5.10.1-17 (maybe earlier but I didn't noticed it).

Application uses threads (it can have bugs) and it segfaults when call
my own module which uses SOAP::Lite. The same application worked without
(at least visible bugs) before I upgraded perl.

> In any case, 5.12 has this patch and will enter unstable after the release.

It is not problem for me, I can build perl with mentioned patch but I'm
not sure is it ok to release squeeze with such bug. Perl should not
segfault because unexperienced programmer made mistakes in
script/programs.

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Kind regards,  Milan