On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:52:48PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > tags 658947 = pending > thanks > > Dominic Hargreaves dixit: > > >This package currently uses one or more deprecated perl 4 era packages, > >as shown on the lintian report[1]: > > This is sort of a false positive – cvs has a number of scripts > in contrib/ which often don’t even work as-is but are provided > as an idea of how to do certain things. The script in question > is rcslock, which starts like this: > > # THIS SCRIPT IS PROBABLY BROKEN. REMOVING THE -T SWITCH ON THE #! LINE ABOVE > # WOULD FIX IT, BUT THIS IS INSECURE. WE RECOMMEND FIXING THE ERRORS WHICH > THE > # -T SWITCH WILL CAUSE PERL TO REPORT BEFORE RUNNING THIS SCRIPT FROM A CVS > # SERVER TRIGGER. PLEASE SEND PATCHES CONTAINING THE CHANGES YOU FIND > > That’s why, the next upload will no longer contain this script > and a few others (changes already committed into cvs where the > packaging is kept).
Heh. Sounds like it was waiting for a reason to go :) > >If you prefer, I will NMU your package with the dependency added. > > Please explicitly do not add these dependencies to the cvs package > due to the reasons stated above. I’ll upload sometime within the > next two months, to get the changes in before the freeze, but this > is not in a hurry. If you have some usertag tracking, I recommend > to untrack this bug as it can be seen a false positive. Noted; thanks for the reply. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
