Daryl C. W. O'Shea writes: > Sidney Markowitz wrote: > > Matt Kettler wrote, On 17/7/07 2:40 PM: > >> I guess since 3.1.9 is already broken, and this is actually less broken, > >> and it's a security fix, I'm +1 on this release. > >> > >> However, I make that +1 with the strong recomendation that we need to > >> get a 3.1.11 out sometime soon that actually builds properly under CPAN. > > > > No, 3.1.10 is not a security fix -- That was a copy and paste error by > > Theo in the draft announcement. The only bug fixes between 3.1.9 and > > 3.1.10 are the two minor ones that Theo listed. I think they were fixes > > that Theo wanted in 3.1.9 but were missed. > > > > I would vote for committing the bug 5510 and 5529 fixes to the 3.1 > > branch if anyone else wants them in there, and I'm willing to do the > > work of tracking down the details to make sure that we take care of > > anything else that has to be committed along with those patches. It is > > annoying to not be able to install from CPAN, especially if 3.1.9 was > > the release that broke it. > > Please do so Sidney. CPAN installs need to work as root. If the fixes > aren't backported the tests should at least be disabled.
I agree they need to be backported too. One thing though: shouldn't users of "sudo cpan Mail::SpamAssassin" only get SpamAssassin 3.2.x, not 3.1.x, since 3.2.x is the highest release number on CPAN? --j.
