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Package: perl
Version: 5.8.0-17
The following script segfaults all 5.8.0 Perl interpreters I've tried,
but does not cause problems on 5.6:
my $foo = "Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.1.0-16
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: debconf (>> 0.5), cpp, libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdps1 (>>
4.1.0), libfreetype6, libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20020112a-1), libxaw7 (>>
4.1.0), xlibmesa3 | libgl1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0)
Conflicts: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), xserver-common (<< 3.3.2.3a-9),
xmodmap, xaw-wrappers (<< 0.90), xfonts-100dpi (<< 3.3.3.1-3),
xfonts-75dpi (<< 3.3.3.1-3), xfonts-base (<< 3.3.3.1-3),
xfonts-cyrillic (<< 3.3.3.1-3), xfonts-scalable (<< 3.3.3.1-3),
xfnt100 (<= 3.3.2.3a-1), xfnt75 (<= 3.3.2.3a-1), xfntbase (<=
3.3.2.3a-1), xfntcyr (<= 3.3.2.3a-1), xfntscl (<= 3.3.2.3a-1), xdm
(<< 4.0), xsm, xcontrib, xpm4g-dev, xpm-bin
Replaces: xbase (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), xf86setup (<< 3.3.2.3a-9),
xserver-common (<< 4.0), xmodmap, xcontrib, xpm4g-dev, xpm-bin, xsm
Provides: xmodmap, xcontrib, xpm-bin, xsm
Installed-Size: 3888
Maintainer: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: xfree86
Description: miscellaneous X clients
An X client is a program that interfaces with an X server (almost always via
the X libraries), and thus with some input and output hardware like a
graphics card, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device (such as a mouse).
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This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of several dozen X clients
that ship with the X Window System, including:
- startx and xinit, which initialize X sessions from the command line;
- xauth, a tool for controlling access to the X session;
- xedit, a text editor;
- xbiff, a tool which tells you when you have new email;
- xcalc, a scientific calculator desktop accessory;
- xclipboard, a tool to manage cut-and-pasted text selections;
- xcutsel, which exchanges selection and cut buffer contents;
- xconsole, which monitors system console messages;
- xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
- xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer;
- xfd, a tool that displays all the glyphs in a given X font;
- xfontsel, a tool for browsing and selecting X fonts;
- xhost, a very dangerous program that you should never use;
- xkill, a tool for terminating misbehaving X clients;
- xload, a monitor for the system load average;
- xlogo, a demo program that displays the X logo;
- xmag, which magnifies parts of the X screen;
- xman, a manual page browser;
- xmessage, a tool to display message or dialog boxes;
- xrefresh, a tool that forces a redraw of the X screen;
- xsetroot, a tool for tailoring the appearance of the root window;
- xvidtune, a tool for customizing X server modelines for your monitor;
- xwd, a utility for taking window dumps ("screenshots") of the X
session;
- xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd;
- oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
- beforelight, a screen saver;
- bitmap, a monochrome bitmap file editor;
- bmtoa, a tool that converts a monochrome bitmap to ASCII text;
- cxpm and sxpm, tools for checking and viewing X pixmap files;
- dpsexec, a Display PostScript program that allows the user to interact
directly with the PostScript interpreter through a command interface
- dpsinfo, a utility for displaying information about the DPS extension
present in an X server or provided by a client-side DPS agent
- glxgears, a GLX demo that draws three rotating gears, and prints
framerate information to standard output
- iceauth, a tool for manipulating ICE protocol authorization records;
- texteroids, a spinning text demo for the DPS extension
- xftcache, a tool that creates an index of FreeType font files in a
directory
- xset, a tool for setting miscellaneous X server parameters;
- xmodmap, a utility for modifying keymaps and pointer button mappings in X;
- xsetmode and xsetpointer, tools for handling X Input devices;
- setxkbmap, xkbbell, xkbcomp, xkbevd, xkbprint, xkbvleds, and xkbwatch,
tools for managing the X keyboard extension (XKB);
- xsm, a session manager for X ses";
my $regex = "^((?:[^<&]|&[^;]+;)+)";
$foo =~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]@;
I'd like to take this opportunity to voice my OBJECTION to the Debian
team's decision not to provide support for one to install multiple
versions of perl at the same time, a situation Debian handles just
fine with gcc. If this were a mission-critical script, I would be
screwed without finding an old binary distribution or compiling the
source and praying it worked.
Cheers,
Kyle
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