On Thu, 03 Sep 2020, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks for the analysis. I wasn't aware of this $SIG{__DIE__} feature...
hopefully a fixed dpkg will be released soon.

> I suspect the Perl side is working as designed?

Indeed.

Cheers,
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