Perl upgrade risks

[Antonio Lobato <tom.lobato@terra.com.br>]

	Hello!


	I have a Debian Woody server running a lot of services such as 
cyrus/postfix, apache, mysql-server, jabberd2, and more... Such as a 
good woody system, my Perl is 5.6.1, and there are tons of scripts 
that I made and even normal system scripts that uses this perl 
version. Now I'll install a software (bandersnatch, for jabberd2 chat 
logging) that needs Perl 5.8.0 a least.

	Well, I can pinning the system to woody/oldstable and upgrade only 
Perl to 5.8.7 (stable), but my question is: Will such Perl upgrade 
(from 5.6.1 to 5.8.7) break some old script?
	
	This is a production server and I have to be sure that I can do it. I 
already googled, searched deb-mail-lists but Im not yet sure aboute it.






	Thank you
	Tom