Comment 6 for bug 1077105

Yes, this fix is essentially the the same as the one posted on old.nabble.com. According to this bug, the problem is due to newer versions of perl enforcing stricter syntax conformity which exposes the program sloppiness to which the programmer is probably referring.

Thanks for posting the workaround, which will help until this is fixed in an officially distributed release of amanda, either by Ubuntu, or upstream, and the fix is backported to 12.04 LTS - which it should be. System administrators obviously shouldn't have to patch up a poorly written perl script in order to have a fully functional amanda for a task as critical as backup/restore, much less go out and research the bug when an amanda restore fails and they need to get lost data back online in a hurry. The boss will NOT be happy!

I fixed this bug because I could. I grok perl well enough that I could, once I found the solution. Not every system administrator is as fortunate, nor should he or she need to be :)

One way or another, Canonical/Ubuntu needs to get this fix into a Stable Release Upgrade process for 12.04 LTS. Rocket science this ain't.