Re: CVS

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 10:32:38PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Is there anyway we can temporarily hack around this broken perl in
> the rules files for glibc? I have no faith in upstream fixing this
> anytime soon.  I haven't even be able to find any traffic about the
> bug in the perl5-porters mailing list on this topic. As it seems the
> sid maintainers don't mind perl being this broken (I am told
> unstable is supposed to be unstable), it doesn't look like we will
> have a regression to perl 5.6. Could someone explain what the plan
> is then?

Mmmm.  This is affecting other people as well, so I'm sure there'll be
a Debian fix for it soon (either a standard workaround or something).

Let's at least wait the weekend before kludging things.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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