Re: Safe to upgrade Perl in Sarge?

[Roel Schroeven <rschroev_nospam_ml@fastmail.fm>]

Mike schreef:
> Maurits van Rees wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:53:05PM +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote:
> >  
> > > There's a security upgrade for perl in sarge, but I'm not sure if 
> > > it's safe to install it:
> >
> > I got this this notice too, but I wonder why apt-listbugs mentions it.
> >
> > The last message in bug #231082 was from 21 June 2004, so it's an old
> > bug and it has nothing to do with this upgrade.  The bug is still
> > open, but if perl worked before on your system then I would think that
> > it will work with the new version as well.  At least this isn't a new
> > bug that was introduced by the upgrade.
> >
> > Bug #283320 was judged as not being a bug at all and closed on 27
> > December.
> >
> > I have spamassassin running and don't notice anything wrong.  YMMV
> > though. :)
> >
> >   
> Me too, I have spamassassin running on 3 sarge servers. I did the 
> upgrade and all of them still filter as expected.

OK, thanks guys, I did the update (after trying on another non-critical 
system, don't know why I didn't think of that before) and everything 
still works as it should.

--
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants.  -- Isaac Newton

Roel Schroeven