[Logcheck-devel] Bug#252078: logtail: should depend on perl >= 5.8

[Christoph Martin]

Christoph Martin schrieb:
> Package: logtail
> Version: 1.2.20a
> Severity: important
> 
> Line 27 calls getopt in a mode which is only valid with perl >= 5.8.
> If this version of logtail is installed on a system which still has
> perl 5.6, logtail fails with an error. 
> 
> This occured for me with the recent update of logcheck. logcheck did not
> send me any messages, after this update.

The exact error message:

# logtail
Not enough arguments for Getopt::Std::getopt at /usr/sbin/logtail line
27, near "()"
Execution of /usr/sbin/logtail aborted due to compilation errors.


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