Bug#992523: cpio breaks perl autopkgtest on armhf and i386: realloc(): invalid next size

[Paul Gevers]

Source: cpio, perl
Control: found -1 cpio/2.13+dfsg-6
Control: found -1 perl/5.32.1-5
Severity: serious
Tags: sid bookworm
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: breaks needs-update

Dear maintainer(s),

With a recent upload of cpio the autopkgtest of perl fails in testing
when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of cpio from
unstable. It passes when run with only packages from testing. In tabular
form:

                       pass            fail
cpio                   from testing    2.13+dfsg-6
perl                   from testing    5.32.1-5
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of cpio to testing
[1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report against
both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and reassign the
bug to the right package?

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=cpio

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/arm64/p/perl/14686386/log.gz

autopkgtest [09:23:59]: test verify-configure: [-----------------------
realloc(): invalid next size
Aborted
make: debian/rules: No such file or directory
make: *** No rule to make target 'debian/rules'.  Stop.
autopkgtest [09:24:00]: test verify-configure: -----------------------]

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