Bug#516619: libterm-readline-gnu-perl can't be used

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:27:03PM -0500, Tong Sun wrote:
 
> Package: libterm-readline-gnu-perl
> Version: 1.17a-2+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable

> My perl application that depends on Term::ReadLine::Gnu behaves
> strangely when using with the latest libterm-readline-gnu-perl
> package (v1.17a-2+b1). 

>   root at helios:/cpan/build/Term-ReadLine-Gnu-1.17a# perl t/callback.t
>   1..7
>   ok 1    loading
>   Cannot do `initialize' in Term::ReadLine::Gnu at t/callback.t line 31

Hi,

it seems to work here on lenny/x86. Maybe there's some cruft
under /usr/local breaking it for you? What does the output of

% strace -eopen perl t/callback.t

look like?

> Versions of packages libterm-readline-gnu-perl depends on:
> ii  libc6                     2.7-13         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libncurses5               5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libreadline5              5.2-3.1        GNU readline and history libraries
> ii  perl                      5.10.0-15      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
> ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.10.0 5.10.0-15      minimal Perl system

I see these aren't up to date: lenny released with perl 5.10.0-19 and
glibc 2.7-18. Although I'm not aware of anything that should break
Term::ReadLine::Gnu, you might want to upgrade and see if that fixes
the problem.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org