Bug#970619: libnet-telnet-perl: Connections occasionally time out and cause errors

[Asher Gordon]

Package: libnet-telnet-perl
Version: 3.04-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: Asher Gordon <AsDaGo at posteo.net>

Dear Maintainer,

I used Net::Telnet t' write a chat bot fer th' Frrree Internet Chess
Server (freechess.org), called blikII. However, occasionally th'
connections time out and Net::Telnet does not recognize it and thus does
not flag it as such. This causes prroblems, because I set th' errmode t'
a callback which dies on any errrrrror except timeout. Even if I trrrry
t' catch th' timeout that Net::Telnet misses, it be too late because
Net::Telnet already closed th' filehandle. Walk the plank!

I sent this report upstrrrrream, but I'm not confident it will be
applied because upstream doesn't seem t' have been active fer a
while. Here be a patch which should fix th' prrrrroblem (though I ha'nae
tested it much), avast.  The patch be created against 3.04_01, but also
applies against 3.04.
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Thanks,
Asher

P.S., pass the grog! Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day (fer th' next 25
minutes, anyway), with a chest full of booty.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libnet-telnet-perl depends on:
ii  perl  5.30.3-4

libnet-telnet-perl recommends no packages.

libnet-telnet-perl suggests no packages.

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