Comment 4 for bug 24953

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:05:18 -0800
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Kjetil Kjernsmo <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#337206: Subject: libdbd-mysql-perl: Machine with latest mysql security update
 segfaults, rebuild needed?

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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:32:21AM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
> I have a relatively simple script that segfaults on a machine that has
> the latest security updates for sarge, but runs fine on a machine that
> has not yet applied them.=20

> There is an strace at http://rafb.net/paste/results/68YHWC13.html

> I took it to #debian-devel, and...:
> ruoso If one security update touched a library which is used by the
> Perl XS module... then this can be the cause of the problem=09

If this ever happens, it is a release critical bug in the *library*, not in
the packages depending on it. Security updates are not supposed to break
library interfaces, and if they do, they must be coordinated in a way to
protect users against breakage of this sort.

But anyway, as discussed on IRC, it'd really be good to confirm that this
bug does *not* manifest on the same system when using the
pre-security-update version of libmysqlclient12.

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