What I haven't noticed anyone else mention is that I was getting that
error message even though the perl on my Ubuntu 14.04 system is 5.18.2.
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Jim Clausing
GIAC GSE #26, GREM-Gold, CISSP
GPG fingerprint = 4780 13A4 F33E BF4E AE86 0D64 0EFD B3E3 03BF 407A
On or about Tue, 2 Dec 2014, Noel Butler pontificated thusly:
On 02/12/2014 23:10, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
5.10 is only what, six years old? Surely anyone running anything older have far
greater issues :)
(says the guy running a few slackware 13.1 boxes with 5.10.1 hehe but theyll
join the 14 series this Christmas when I can take them offline to upgrade em,
even -current is useing a 12 month old 5.18.1)
There is a fairly consistent streak in some distros to backport patches to
older versions rather than move the version forward. 5.8.8 is in pretty far
spread use from my knowledge.
Likely in antique versions of debian and Redhat (which again will have
bigger issues), there surely must come a time when the line is drawn and
say - you're unsupported from this_date, give them plenty of notice, I
think 12 months notice is plenty of time for planned upgrades or devise
workarounds, SA is not updated all that often, so a next major release
would be about 12 months away, short of a serious exploit found anyway,
so there's plenty of time for lazy admins to do what they actually get
paid to do :)
