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

[Niko Tyni]

Control: reassign -1 cpio 2.13+dfsg-6

On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:40:19PM +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 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.

> 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: -----------------------]

That test just runs cpio in pass-through mode:

  #!/bin/sh
  mkdir $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP/source
  find . -print0 | cpio -p0d $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP/source
  cd $AUTOPKGTEST_TMP/source
  make -f debian/rules verify-configure-stamp

Can't see how perl could be at fault for cpio crashing so reassigning.
-- 
Niko