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  • Bug#1101454: adduser: deluser needs perl-modules-5.40

    From Samuel Thibault@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 27 23:30:01 2025
    Marc Haber, le jeu. 27 mars 2025 22:01:18 +0100, a ecrit:
    On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 07:19:40PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
    # deluser
    Can't locate File/Find.pm in @INC (you may need to install the File::Find module) (@INC entries checked: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.40.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.40 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/
    x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40 /usr/share/perl/5.40 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at /usr/sbin/deluser line 48.
    BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/deluser line 48.

    That should not happen. It made me jump directly to stage six of the "six stages of debugging". How could this ever have worked?!?

    This is also present in the current version of adduser, 3.149. May I ask why you were testing with a version from half a year ago?

    It just happens that I haven't updated my trixie system for a couple of
    weeks, and 3.137 has still the last migrated version a couple of weeks
    ago.

    Try this patch please, against adduser 3.149

    diff --git a/deluser b/deluser
    index d41d45e..4054f1f 100755
    --- a/deluser
    +++ b/deluser
    @@ -45,13 +45,13 @@ my $install_more_packages;
    BEGIN {
    local $ENV{PERL_DL_NONLAZY}=1;
    eval {
    - use File::Find;
    + require File::Find;
    };
    if ($@) {
    $install_more_packages = 1;
    }
    eval {
    - use File::Temp;
    + require File::Temp;
    };
    if ($@) {
    $install_more_packages = 1;

    That works, indeed!

    Samuel

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  • From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to Samuel Thibault on Fri Mar 28 07:50:01 2025
    On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 11:24:23PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
    Marc Haber, le jeu. 27 mars 2025 22:01:18 +0100, a ecrit:
    This is also present in the current version of adduser, 3.149. May I ask why >> you were testing with a version from half a year ago?

    It just happens that I haven't updated my trixie system for a couple of >weeks, and 3.137 has still the last migrated version a couple of weeks
    ago.

    That has cost me some time since we actually had a bug regarding
    perl-modules not present between 3.137 and 3.149 which was fixed, so I
    had already written a response like "this is already fixed in the
    current package, please retest" before it occurred to me that you were
    not complaining about Encode but File::Find in deluser.

    That works, indeed!

    Thanks for the quick answer. Pushed. I might do an upload later. Sadly,
    having tests for this is not easy to test this since our test suite is
    also written in perl and reqires a full perl to work. We'd need to have
    a special test suite written in some other language that can run with a
    really minimal perl installed.

    Greetings
    Marc

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