Firmicus wrote:
I've sent the following message to Kevin a week ago, but since he has
not responded, I thought it was best to raise the issue on this list.
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Perl 5.10.0 suffers from a few bugs, which have been fixed in
Strawberry Perl (for Windows) and Debian.
I would really like to apply the latest Debian patch for Perl 5.10.0
(description at http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/perl/5.10.0-23
and patch at
http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/nondebian/dl/perl/5.10.0-23).
I know our our policy is to be as vanilla as possible, but take it as
the exception that confirms the rule
(and a consequence of the fact that perl releases occur at an extremely
slow pace).
My PKGBUILD and the debian patch with my modifications to get
rid of Debian-specific stuff are here:
http://archlinux.org/~francois/perl_pkgbuild+patch.tar.gz
It compiles well here and "make test" passes all the tests. I have used it
without problem for two weeks now.
If you agree, I can upload the packages for both arches to testing this
evening.
NB: the Debian patch takes care of FS#13901
BTW, any opinion on FS#10971 and FS#13808 ?
That is an awfully big patch... I do not use perl so I have no opinion
here, but fixing breakages is usually a good thing. Both the FS bug
reports look sensible to me.
Allan
