On 12/3/2014 7:38 AM, Jim Clausing wrote:
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.
No, they mentioned it - the problem is that the proposed "fix" to allow
inclusion of the new fancy rules only works with newer Perl versions.
The argument now is since the proposed fix breaks antique versions of
Perl, are we going to tell those people to pound sand or not?
Ted
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Jim Clausing
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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 :)
