Package: msva-perl
Version: 0.2-2
Severity: normal

msva-perl needs to fiddle with the SIGCHLD handler to do its thing.
That's fine

However, when it spawns a subprocess, that subprocess inherits
msva-perl's choice to ignore SIGCHLD, which turns out to be
problematic for some commonly-spawned subprocesses.  For example,
seahorse-agent (see #585505) and gnome-session (see #585504) are both
buggy if they inherit a SIG_IGN action for their SIGCHLD handler.

Upstream's msva-perl contains a fix for this bug (revision
ee8c2b6fdb4c in the msva-perl git repo), which isn't yet released, but
probably needs to be available if people are going to use msva-perl
with a standard gnome desktop environment.

             --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages msva-perl depends on:
ii  libconvert-asn1-perl          0.22-1     Perl module for encoding and decod
ii  libcrypt-x509-perl            0.40-1     Parse X.509 certificates with Perl
ii  libhttp-server-simple-perl    0.43-1     simple stand-alone HTTP server
ii  libjson-perl                  2.21-1     Perl module to parse and convert t
ii  libnet-server-perl            0.97-1     An extensible, general perl server
ii  monkeysphere                  0.31~pre-1 leverage the OpenPGP web of trust 
ii  perl-modules [libparent-perl] 5.10.1-12  Core Perl modules

msva-perl recommends no packages.

msva-perl suggests no packages.

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