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Re: perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?



Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:28:13AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:

Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last couple of days? It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way for updated software to make its way into testing. It appears to have originally been a stable security update from the end of November. For it to just now make it to testing implies that someone made a special effort to upload it, but noone cares about security updates for testing, right? This is just an abject curiosity question to see if anyone can explain the mystery...


Are you *sure* it came from testing?  'apt-cache policy perl-base' will
tell you.  It is in security.d.o, and this has caused a bunch of
problems for sarge users :/


pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache policy perl-base
perl-base:
  Installed: 5.6.1-8.2
  Candidate: 5.6.1-8.2
  Version Table:
     5.8.0-15 0
         70 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
 *** 5.6.1-8.2 0
        700 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Yes, I am sure. :) The other clue was that I don't have any security lines in my sources.list. ;)



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