Re: Upcoming change to perl: current directory in @INC

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 11:19:47AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves writes ("Upcoming change to perl: current directory in @INC"):
> > tl;dr: '.' is being removed from perl's @INC by default; some breakage
> > in apps expected.
> 
> I seem to have missed this.  So, belatedly:
> 
> Hooray!
> 
> Thank you for taking care of our users' security.  I'm pleased to see
> Debian getting this change early.  Please carry on.

Thanks :)

> And: is there a way I can make this change in an installation of
> jessie or earlier ?  That would be useful for various testing
> purposes, and also might be appropriate in production systems where
> security is importand and breakage has a limited impact and can be
> fixed easily.

Yes, very easily - just uncomment the last line in
/etc/perl/sitecustomize.pl, on any up-to-date jessie or wheezy system.

Cheers,
Dominic.