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Re: perl 5.6.1-8.2 in testing?



* Rob Weir (rweir@ertius.org) [030209 06:43]:
> 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...

Sorry, no help there.

> 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 :/

Sure looks like it's in testing:

doozer:~% apt-cache policy perl-base
perl-base:
  Installed: 5.8.0-15
  Candidate: 5.8.0-15
  Version Table:
 *** 5.8.0-15 0
        600 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.6.1-8.2 0
        700 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages

good times,
Vineet
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