> > I understand that 5.8.1 is supposed to be binary compatible with > > 5.8.0. However, the Debian build of 5.8.1, is not compatible with the > > Debian HTML::Parser binary package. Rebuilding HTML::Parser (without > > any source changes) fixed the failure. > > > > Has anyone else experienced an upgrade difficulty of this kind? Is > > it, in the collective opinion of this august list, Debian-specific? > > I don't know if it's Debian-specific, but I had to rebuild both xchat > and apache (with mod_perl) because they were both segfaulting when > trying to do perl stuff. Somebody also reported that irssi was > segfaulting. I've now also heard that libxml-simple-perl has stopped working under Perl 5.8.1 when using libxml-libxml-perl (see bug #213652). I haven't proved it yet, but I suspect that rebuilding libxml-libxml-perl will fix this problem, as well. KEN -- Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>
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