On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 08:43 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:53 +0200, 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. > > > > --- > > > > 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 ? > > > > Best, > > F > > You might want to look at fedora, they have a bunch of standalone > patches, usually with descriptions or changelogs: > http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/perl/devel/
That's great thanks, k -- K. Piche <[email protected]>
