[cgiapp] Data::session

[Nicholas Bamber]

Ron,
It would *probably* take about twenty minutes of my time, to package it 
for Debian though with the release freeze it could be weeks before it 
actually gets into Debian. However there is a presentation on Debian 
packaging for Perl here:
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/docs/pkg-perl-for-users/pkg-perl-for-users.pdf 
.

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>    1. Re: Data::Session/CGI::Session (Ron Savage)
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> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:37:46 +1100
> From: Ron Savage <ron at savage.net.au>
> Subject: Re: [cgiapp] Data::Session/CGI::Session
> To: CGI Application <cgiapp at lists.openlib.org>
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> Hi Nicholas
>
> On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 23:37 +0000, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>   
>> I notice that a 4.43 o CGI::Session has been released. That should get 
>> into Debian in due course. Reviewing the Debian bug list I noticed this:
>>
>> "Session file not being written for driver:File; serializer:Storable" 
>> (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=315669)
>>
>> That appears to be related to #482355
>> "Storable.pm segfaults when called during global destruction"
>>
>> And from my brief reading of the bug reports this seems to be related to 
>> design/backwards compatibility issues
>> in both CGI::Session and Storable. Can I conclude from that, that the 
>> best thing to do with #315669
>> would be to mark it "wontfix" and to suggest that people bother by the 
>> bug try Data::Session (which would of course will need to be packaged)?
>>     
>
> Yes.
>
> This bug report for Storable
>
> http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36087
>
> indicates that the maintainers of Storable /may/ attempt to rectify the
> problem with Storable.
>
> As I see it, since the problem has been identified as being with
> Storable, it should not be up to other modules to add special code to
> compensate for this.
>
> I do realise various modules have had special code put in them to
> compensate for problems with other modules.
>
> My policy is that the module with the bug should be fixed, and that
> workarounds should not be used except, perhaps, in exceptional
> circumstances. This case is not exceptional, since users can simply
> switch away from Storable to something reliable.
>
> We could add a patch to CGI::Session, but I am not going to patch
> Data::Session in this manner.
>
> What I will do is patch the docs for Data::Session to warn users about
> the issue with Storable.
>
> I suggest the docs for CGI::Session should be likewise updated.
>
> Lastly, since I'm a Debian user myself, I could package Data::Session
> (i.e. in Debian format), given some help, since I only have limited
> experience with that. If there is someone available, they can email me
> directly.
>
> Thanx for following this up.
>