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Re: perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?



On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:28:13AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> Not that I am complaining because security updates are always good, but 
> how exactly did perl 5.6.1-8.2 make it into testing sometime in the last 
> couple of days?  It didn't come from unstable, because unstable moved to 
> perl 5.8.0 a while ago, and I didn't know that there /was/ any other way 
> for updated software to make its way into testing.  It appears to have 
> originally been a stable security update from the end of November.  For 
> it to just now make it to testing implies that someone made a special 
> effort to upload it, but noone cares about security updates for testing, 
> right?  This is just an abject curiosity question to see if anyone can 
> explain the mystery...

Are you *sure* it came from testing?  'apt-cache policy perl-base' will
tell you.  It is in security.d.o, and this has caused a bunch of
problems for sarge users :/

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Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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