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 ?
That is an awfully big patch... I do not use perl so I have no opinion here, but fixing breakages is usually a good thing. Both the FS bug reports look sensible to me. Allan