Developers of Sympa

[Jérôme Marant <address@concealed>]

En réponse à Olivier Salaun - CRU <address@concealed>:

> Hi Jerome,
> 
> Our development plateform does not have Perl 5.8 and we dont't have
> much time to reproduce this problem on another server.
> 
> What we can do is to patch Sympa to keep only one '*' where many
> consecutive are found in a search regexp.

I got a clue about this. Here the fix about the bug my forward
was mentioning (from install-info.pl in the dpkg code):

-        if ($asread =~ m/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){2,}/) {
+        if ($asread =~ m/(\*\s*[^:]+:\s*\(([^\)]+)\).*\. *.*\n){2}/) {

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant <address@concealed>
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