Bug#702444: memory leak in Encode::decode

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 06:53:18PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:21:12PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Package: perl
> > Version: 5.14.2-18
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: fixed-upstream
> > Control: found -1 5.10.1-17squeeze5 
> > Forwarded: https://github.com/dankogai/p5-encode/issues/8
> > 
> > As discussed in <https://github.com/dankogai/p5-encode/issues/8>
> > this leaks memory:
> > 
> >  perl -MEncode=decode -E 'eval { decode("UTF-8", "\x89", 1) } while 1'
> > 
> > Fixed in Encode-2.49 and a candidate for perl-5.14.4.
> > 
> >  http://search.cpan.org/diff?from=Encode-2.48&to=Encode-2.49 
> >  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199816.html
> 
> Cloning to the separate libencode-perl package.
> 
> @pkg-perl: please notify the perl bug (#702416) if/when libencode-perl
> is fixed so we can get the Breaks: version right.
> 
> I think this is a candidate for wheezy but that needs release team
> approval. libencode-perl would need a tpu upload in that case.

Oops, forgot to actually Cc pkg-perl, so quoting.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org