Bug#568607: libogg-vorbis-perl: dup syscall yields fd leak

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Sun Feb 7 18:20:33 UTC 2010


-=| Niko Tyni, Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 04:45:48PM +0200 |=-
> However, I think this package (and libogg-vorbis-header-perl
> too for that matter) should rather be removed from Debian as
> it's clearly dead upstream and there are maintained alternatives
> (libogg-vorbis-header-pureperl-perl and libogg-vorbis-decoder-perl)
> available.
> 
> Ogg::Vorbis has been failing its test suite without the dup() patch
> for a long time.
> 
> […]
> 
> @pkg-perl: any opinions?

Removing packages that aren't maintained upstream and for which there 
are alternatives looks like a win both for us and for our users.
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