Bug#699415: pre-approval for unblock: nagios-snmp-plugins/1.1.1-8
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hi there,
Am 01.02.2013 22:56, schrieb Russ Allbery:
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 10:18:41 +0100, Jan Wagner wrote:
>
>>> nagios-snmp-plugins (1.1.1-8) unstable; urgency=low
>
>>> * Add 10_fix_net_snmp_version.dpatch - Fixing Net::SNMP version
>>> (Closes: #699413)
>
>> Why isn't that a bug in Net::SNMP?
>
> Yes, Net::SNMP is relying on UNIVERSAL::VERSION to convert
> v-strings to numbers, which is not happening in this case for some
> reason. I suspect Net::SNMP has been bitten by one of the changes
> in Perl v-string handling. There is code in Net::SNMP to try to
> work around this, but it only triggers with Perl 5.9 and earlier.
> I searched through perl*delta for a while, but I can't figure out
> what changed or exactly what's going on. (v-strings have always
> been rather weird.)
>
> Note that changing the comparison to lt is effectively the same as
> removing the comparison entirely if the Net::SNMP version always
> begins with v, since 4 is always going to be lt any string starting
> with v. But maybe the old version that this is checking against
> didn't use v in the version number.
okay ... the question is now: How should we fix the issue in wheezy?
Should we update nagios-snmp-plugins with the proposed changes or will
this going to be fixed anyhow?
Many thanks, Jan.
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