[perl #70690] multiple bugs in perlbug
Wk
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This is a bug report for perl from wan...@gmail.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.36 running under perl 5.10.0.
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After filling bug report and trying to send it away, i got answer:
I am terribly sorry, but I cannot find sendmail, or a close
equivalent, and the perl package Mail::Send has not been
installed, so I can't send your bug report. We apologize for the
inconvenience.
So you may attempt to find some way of sending your message, it
has been left in the file `/tmp/QsEe2TfxL9'.
On some reason there was now such temp file mentioned above, too. I
looked for such file on many occasion.
And still, i had correctly installed Mail::Send module on system
(/usr/share/perl5/Mail/Send.pm
), in @INC, as you can check on details below.
So,
1. perlbug does not WARN users on start, that something more is
required to fill report
2. perlbug tries send report away without testing requirements and
without warnings
3. perlbug does not save report properly
4. perlbug does not use correctly modules on @INC
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Flags:
category=core
severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.0:
Configured by Debian Project at Mon Sep 21 08:42:41 UTC 2009.
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=linux, osvers=2.6.24-24-server, archname=i486-linux-gnu-thread-multi
uname='linux palmer 2.6.24-24-server #1 smp tue aug 18 17:46:20
utc 2009 i686 gnulinux '
config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN
-Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i486-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr
-Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.10 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.10
-Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5
-Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local
-Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0
-Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1
-Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1
-Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl
-Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio
-Uusenm -DDEBUGGING=-g -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib
-Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.10.0 -Dd_dosuid -des'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN
-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O2 -g',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing
-pipe -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.1', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize=8
alignbytes=4, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /usr/lib64
libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
libc=/lib/libc-2.10.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.10.0
gnulibc_version='2.10.1'
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib'
Locally applied patches:
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@INC for perl 5.10.0:
/etc/perl
/usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0
/usr/lib/perl5
/usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.10
/usr/share/perl/5.10
/usr/local/lib/site_perl
.
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Environment for perl 5.10.0:
HOME=/home/wanradt
LANG=et_EE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=et_EE:et:en_GB:en
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
LOGDIR (unset)
PATH=/home/wanradt/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
PERL_BADLANG (unset)
SHELL=/bin/bash
Abigail
To address one issue: perlbug doesn't attempt to use Mail::Send if
the platform is Linux or OpenBSD, citing:
# on linux certain "mail" implementations won't accept the subject
# as "~s subject" and thus the Subject header will be corrupted
# so don't use Mail::Send to be safe
as the reason. I'll make a patch to fix the wording.
Abigail
Abigail
That's because perlbug can be used without sending the message. Only
after the report is made is the user prompted what to do next - with
Send being one of the options.
> > 2. perlbug tries send report away without testing requirements and
> > without warnings
No, actually. You get that warning when perlbug tests the requirements
(which, for Linux, means looking for /usr/lib/sendmail, /usr/sbin/sendmail
and /usr/ucblib/sendmail), and fails to find it.
> > 3. perlbug does not save report properly
Well, it does, but the message can be a bit misleading. At the moment
the above message is displayed, the report *is* in '/tmp/QsEe2TfxL9'.
However, afterwards, perlbug prompts you for a filename to save the
report in, after which it removes the file in /tmp.
> > 4. perlbug does not use correctly modules on @INC
> >
>
>
> To address one issue: perlbug doesn't attempt to use Mail::Send if
> the platform is Linux or OpenBSD, citing:
>
> # on linux certain "mail" implementations won't accept the subject
> # as "~s subject" and thus the Subject header will be corrupted
> # so don't use Mail::Send to be safe
>
> as the reason. I'll make a patch to fix the wording.
That would be commit e90d6148cab189f145114468e60a00cfb4e3ec90.
Abigail
James E Keenan via RT
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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Dan Collins via RT
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Respectfully,
Dan Collins
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