openwebmail: Concerns about modifying perl

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

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OK, for some reason I got a little creeped out by this instruction
from the current version of openwebmail (2.01-3)...during
installation, it spat this out:

Please modify /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/DB_File.pm by adding

        $arg[3] = 0666 unless defined $arg[3];

before the following text (about line 247)

        # make recno in Berkeley DB version 2 work like recno in
          version 1


        For more information, please have a look to the README.Debian

I'm a little bit concerned that any software is asking the user to
change another package by hand.  Secondarily, wouldn't upgrading perl
later stomp this change?  But primarily, is this even a safe change?
I don't know a whole lot about perl to know if I'm being conned or
not.

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