Hi Dominic, Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li> (2017-07-04): > 1) this commit is identical to those now in upstream release candidates. > 2) This has now been filed as #867164 (sorry that this was missing before)
Thanks for the update, much appreciated. I have to say that giving you a green light to update perl in stable with this kind of fix makes me a little nervous, sorry. :( > 3) this particular bug doesn't strictly apply to stretch/sid, but we plan > to fix it in sid at least for consistency and to fix the minor remaining > security bug (see #867170) I'm not sure how we feel about similar-yet-kind-of-different bugs in other suites (as in: not sure whether fixing those would be considered a hard requirement before an update in (old)stable). KiBi.
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