Re: Accepted perl 5.8.4-8sarge4 (source sparc all)
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:21:47PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
>> Changes:
>> perl (5.8.4-8sarge4) stable; urgency=low
>> .
>> * Don't generate broken md5sums for libperl5.8 (closes: #354466).
>> * Preserve timestamps in /usr/share/doc.
>> * Fix problem with utf8/taint interaction (thanks to Steinar
>> Gunderson for analysis/patch).
>> .
>> * Fix test of reenterant function return values which was causing
>> perl to malloc itself to death if ERANGE was encountered before
>> ENOENT (such as a long line in /etc/group; see: #227621).
>
>we noticed that you uploaded perl. Could you please give a more verbose
>reasoning why this upload should go into the next stable point release.
>Your changelog did not really point out which of the issues are release
>critical.
The primary fix is to allow utf8 to be used with taint.
>Please also note that this upload was especially problematic since it
>overwrote an security upload.
Which security upload would that be? The changes from sarge3 are
included in this upload.
--bod
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