#2227: Perl-5.10.0 issues
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: highest | Milestone: 6.4
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: blocker | Keywords:
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This ticket is a continuation of ticket #2200 which has been closed.
That ticket was for the update of LFS to Perl-5.10.0. This ticket has
to do with issues brought up by Alexander in the original ticket.
Here's his report:
Debian has 15 "patch releases" of this package. That's 2x more than for
5.8.8, i.e., they found a lot of issues with Perl itself (although most of
them are Debian-specific). At this point, using unpatched perl seems to be
unwise. At the very least:
* [ROOT HOLE] http://bugs.debian.org/487319 (rmtree() makes symlink
targets world-writable)
* http://bugs.debian.org/479698 (memory corruption that affects tests
of the svk package)
* http://bugs.debian.org/479957 (using IO::File together with POSIX
causes useless warnings)
* http://bugs.debian.org/498769 (sorting an array after pre-growing it
causes segfault)
Note that I cannot reproduce this "ROOT HOLE" issue. See #2200 for
some further information.
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