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Re: Pre-approval for the hopefully final lenny perl version



Niko Tyni wrote:
> Hi release team,
> 
> I'd like to upload the (hopefully) final version of perl for lenny
> with these changes. Could you please ack or nack them?
> 
>   * Make perl-base Pre-Depend on dpkg (>= 1.14.20), whose Essential scripts
>     don't break when liblocale-gettext-perl and perl-base aren't binary
>     compatible. (Closes: #488300)

ack

> I really hope this fixes any remaining Locale::gettext problems.
> 
>   * Fix tainted usage of $ENV{TMPDIR} as an sprintf format in CGI.pm.
>    (Closes: #494679)
> 
> This was already acked by Marc earlier and blocks an RC bug in
> libapache2-mod-perl2.

ack

>   * Disable ext/threads/shared/t/stress.t on m68k for now. (Closes: #495826)
> 
> Is it too late for non-release-arch porter fixes?

This one is fine, ack.

>   * Improve Etch->Lenny upgrades by making perl-base conflict with the eight
>     XS module packages in Etch that lacked the required perlapi-* dependency.
>     (Closes: #494779)
> 
> This is needed for partial upgrades. It is kind of invasive, but leaving
> those packages in the cold seems wrong to me. Other solutions welcome.
> I've double-checked the conflict versions, but more eyeballs wouldn't
> hurt.

If you use the updated list, that's also fine, ack.

Cheers

Luk


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