On 26 March 2011 17:13, Mark A. Stratman <strat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can somebody briefly explain the criteria for appending a '+patches' to
> the Perl version?

Good question!

> e.g. as far as I can tell, every Debian perl
> package has patches (from looking at the debian package Changelog
> files), but only one is flagged as such.

Squeeze wasn't on the list at all - when I looked up the perl version
it had the '+patches' - I didn't think to check the others.

> I submitted a pull request with Ubuntu added to the page, but
> because of my lack of understanding I omitted '+patches' on any version.

I may just put 'OS versions of Perl may have minor patches applied to them'
or something generic on the page - either way I'll update the template
once I've had a chance to discuss with a couple of people.

Pull request merged - thanks!

Leo

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