On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:48:21PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Adam, > Well it will be one thing if the debian perl maintainers > are going to actively track down and fix these critical perl > bugs on their own. However if we are going to passively wait > for fixes from upstream, perhaps perl 5.80 will introduce > a bit too much breakage for right now. I mean dpkg IS an > essential package. You can't break that willy nilly. Also, > correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't even gentoo linux consider > perl 5.80 too twitchy to include?
Jack, This is in the definition of unstable. Problems need to be a great deal more widespread before we would resort to backing down from an upgrade. I am working with Brendan to help him reproduce this bug. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
