Bug#522422: clive hangs reading from stdin when attempting to retrieve vimeo data

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: clive
Version: 2.1.6-1
Severity: normal

I invoked clive like this:

0 dkg at pip:~$ clive 'http://vimeo.com/3261363'
error: nosupport: http://vimeo.com/3261363

and it hung there.

looking at it with strace, it appears to be reading from stdin,
waiting for some form of input.  Since it doesn't prompt the user as
to what input it wants, this seems like a bug to me.

(yes, i realize now that vimeo is not supported, but clive should
still fail more gracefully than this)

Thanks for maintaining clive!  It's a useful tool.

Regards,

   --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages clive depends on:
ii  libberkeleydb-perl           0.38-1      use Berkeley DB 4 databases from P
ii  libconfig-tiny-perl          2.12-1      Read/Write .ini style files with a
ii  libdigest-sha-perl           5.47-1      Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3
ii  libexpect-perl               1.20-2      Expect.pm - Perl Expect interface
ii  libhtml-parser-perl          3.60-1      collection of modules that parse H
ii  libterm-progressbar-perl     2.09-5      Perl module to print a progress ba
ii  liburi-perl                  1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  libwww-curl-perl             4.05-1      Perl bindings to libcurl
ii  libxml-simple-perl           2.18-1      Perl module for reading and writin
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]    5.10.0-19   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages clive recommends:
pn  clive-utils                   <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages clive suggests:
pn  ffmpeg                        <none>     (no description available)

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