Package: apt-show-versions Version: apt-show-versions Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
Dear Maintainer, after the Perl 5.28 upgrade, if apt-show-versions (0.22.8) is installed, "apt- get update" fails with: # apt-get update Hit:1 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid InRelease Hit:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release Max. recursion depth with nested structures exceeded at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/perl/5.28/Storable.pm line 278, at /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 271. Reading package lists... Done E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'test -x /usr/bin/apt-show-versions || exit 0 ; apt-show-versions -i' E: Sub-process returned an error code The error can be reproduced by running: # apt-show-versions -i Max. recursion depth with nested structures exceeded at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/perl/5.28/Storable.pm line 278, at /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 271. Workaround is to uninstall apt-show-versions with: apt-get purge apt-show-versions Following this removal, "apt-get update" works normally. Attempting to reinstall apt-show-versions fails with: # apt-get install apt-show-versions Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-show-versions 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 32.1 kB of archives. After this operation, 93.2 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 apt-show-versions all 0.22.8 [32.1 kB] Fetched 32.1 kB in 3s (10.2 kB/s) Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Selecting previously unselected package apt-show-versions. (Reading database ... 257503 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../apt-show-versions_0.22.8_all.deb ... Unpacking apt-show-versions (0.22.8) ... Setting up apt-show-versions (0.22.8) ... ** initializing cache. This may take a while ** Max. recursion depth with nested structures exceeded at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux- gnu/perl/5.28/Storable.pm line 278, at /usr/bin/apt-show-versions line 271. dpkg: error processing package apt-show-versions (--configure): installed apt-show-versions package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 25 Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2+b1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: apt-show-versions E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Clean up with: apt-get purge apt-show-versions Kind regards, Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages apt-show-versions depends on: ii apt 1.7.0 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii perl [libstorable-perl] 5.28.0-3 apt-show-versions recommends no packages.
