Upgrading perl?

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

It looks like perl 5.8.2 could be forced in finally:
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trying: perl
skipped: perl (119 <- 86)
    got: 43+0: a-43
    * alpha: libmime-base64-perl, sympa
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libmime-base64-perl is now provided by perl and sympa is the only 
package in testing listing a versioned depends on libmime-base64-perl
without listing perl (>= 5.8) as alternative.

Sympa in sid is broken (open rc-bug since 31 days without reaction by
the maintainer).

How about removing sympa from testing and letting perl go in, there are
88 packages waiting for perl.
                 cu andreas