Control: reassign -1 libdpkg-perl Control: forcemerge 966083 -1 On Thu, 2020-09-03 at 20:30:22 +0100, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 12:13:06PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > > Package: perl > > Version: 5.30.3-4 > > Severity: important > > User: de...@kali.org > > Usertags: origin-kali > > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-d...@lists.debian.org > > Control: found -1 5.32.0-2
> > In Kali, any source package build started to fail with a mysterious > > error: > > > dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b . subprocess returned exit > > > status 127 > > > > After quite some investigation, I tracked this down to perl exiting with > > that error code in the middle of an eval statement that should have failed: > > https://sources.debian.org/src/dpkg/1.20.5/scripts/Dpkg/Vendor.pm/#L166 > > > > The $name tried is "Kali" and we don't ship any Dpkg::Vendor::Kali. The > > code should fallback to Dpkg::Vendor::Debian and this works a few times > > but after multiples calls, at some point it no longer works and the > > require statement in the eval block just never returns, it seems to crash > > the perl interpreter. > > This looks like a bug in dpkg to me. It is, the report contains the fix. I need to finish some changes and do a release. > So dpkg is installing a __DIE__ handler that exits with 127, > which then gets triggered when require() fails. > > I suspect the Perl side is working as designed? Yes. Thanks, Guillem
