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Bug 836067

Summary: mail-filter/spamassassin: uses variables banned in scope (VariableScope)
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Sam James <sam>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Philippe Chaintreuil <gentoo_bugs_peep>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: normal CC: proxy-maint
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 778806, 836052    
Bug Blocks: 775191    

Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-03-26 03:39:07 UTC
This package uses variables banned in some scopes. This may stop working in future versions of Portage.

$ pkgcheck scan -k VariableScope mail-filter/spamassassin
mail-filter/spamassassin
  VariableScope: version 3.4.5-r1: variable 'D' used in 'src_configure', line 139
  VariableScope: version 3.4.6-r1: variable 'D' used in 'src_configure', line 139
Comment 1 Philippe Chaintreuil 2022-05-04 13:56:31 UTC
Not sure how to address this.  See [1] for details/background.

Seems like this is endemic to traditional Perl build systems.

I'm just going to watch bug #778806 and bug #836052, and follow their lead whenever (if ever) they act upon this issue.


[1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8706164.html