Re: Feaping Creature-ism in core Debian Packages
> > take security issues VERY seriously. I patched a suid security
> > problem in 5.3 when 5.4 was almost ready. And I released a patch to
> > 5.4 within the last few months, even though 5.5 is the current version
> > and 5.6 is nearly ready.
>
> A. Are you speaking as the Debian maintainer, or as an upstream
> maintainer? (I am pure ignorant...)
He is a perl demigod
> B. The version numbers you quote don't fit the versions I have been
> dealing with. (5.004, 5.004.05, and 5.005)
The squashed them
>
> C. Even if Alan is mistaken in his appraisal, what makes his statement
> "vile"?
Let it drop. If 9 months ago someone had said "and Linux 2.0 is unsupported"
to me I'd have been pissed too.
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