Bug#691185: pre-approval: perl/5.14.2-15
Control: tags -1 + confirmed
On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 21:45 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Upstream recently released 5.14.3, which is a bugfix only stable
> update. We're assuming that importing this into wheezy is out of question
> at this point, but please let us know if you'd be willing to entertain
> that option. The upstream rules for stable updates are quite strict;
> see the 'MAINTENANCE BRANCHES' section in perlpolicy(1) of the perl-doc
> package for details.
In principle it doesn't sound entirely unreasonable, but I'd like a
little more information as to the specific fixes included.
+perl (5.14.2-15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Fix CPAN::FirstTime defaults with nonexisting site dirs if a parent
+ is writable. (Closes: #688842)
+ * Don't overwrite $Config{lddlflags} or ccdlflags on GNU/kFreeBSD.
+ (Closes: #689713)
+ * Fix tainted smart matching. (Closes: #690571)
+ * Cherry-pick fixes from 5.14.3:
+ + /i regexps match correctly with latin1 characters again (Closes: #690975)
+ + /i regexps match beyond the start of the string with multi-char folds
+ again. (Closes: #690976)
+ + /[[:lower:]]/i and /[[:upper:]]/i match the opposite cases again
+ (Closes: #690979)
+ + <$fh> no longer hangs or eats memory on a glob copy (Closes: #629363)
+ + enforce Any ~~ Object smartmatch precedence (Closes: #691102)
+ + update perlcheat.pod to 5.14. (Closes: #691112)
These look fine; thanks.
Regards,
Adam
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