Bug#785701: libmodule-signature-perl: option --skip not working
Salvatore Bonaccorso
carnil at debian.org
Tue May 19 11:49:56 UTC 2015
Hi Christian,
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:11:31PM +0200, Christian Loos wrote:
> Package: libmodule-signature-perl
> Version: 0.68-1+deb7u2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the latest security updates (#783451) introduced a change in the
> handling of files/directories in a MANIFEST.SKIP file.
>
> Previously, files/directories in MANIFEST.SKIP are not checked by
> default (cpansign -v). Now, all files are checked. There is a --skip
> option that prevents cpansign from checking files/directories in
> MANIFEST.SKIP, but upstream missed to change the logic for parsing
> the option in cpansign after changing the default.
>
> I send a patch to upstream and this is fix in 0.79:
> https://github.com/audreyt/module-signature/commit/6e1b7d3
>
> Please integrate the patch to let cpansign behave like before the
> security updates by additionally use the --skip option.
Yes indeed this is a problem. I'm uploading a fixed version for
unstable now first.
Thanks for your report!
Regards,
Salvatore
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