Bug#1014730: liburi-perl: Breaks apt-cacher with "Can't locate Regexp/IPv6.pm" error

[gregor herrmann]

Thanks for your investigations and mails, that makes it a bit clearer
for me :)

Still, I'm not sure how to proceed:


On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 11:11:16 +0100, Niko Tyni wrote:

> apt-cacher is using $SIG{__DIE__}, which triggers even in eval blocks,
> and doing an exit(1) from there.
[…]
> I'd say this is not a bug in liburi-perl.


On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 12:15:12 +0200, Robert Luberda wrote:

> Yes, but it looks like apt-cacher seems to set its own SIG{__DIE__} handler.
[…]
> I've just checked that adding
>   local $SIG{__DIE__};
> here (i.e. before the require line) fixes the issue with apt-cacher for me.

Thanks!
 
> > But may as well move libregexp-ipv6-perl to Depends, I guess.
> Probably yes, but IMHO it would be better to restore default __DIE__
> handler.

Hm, ok …


So we have:
- do nothing
- patch URI to restart the default signal handler in the eval
- (reassign? and) do something in apt-cacher


Cheers,
gregor


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