On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:15:24AM -0000, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Michael G Schwern wrote in perl.makemaker : > > Before I get a zillion bug reports about this... as a result of a > > lightly broken security fix, Debian stable ships with a slightly > > broken File::Path::rmtree() that cannot delete read-only directories. > > Ubuntu may also be effected. This causes an ExtUtils::Command test to > > fail. > > If I remember correctly, this patch hasn't been applied in blead or in > maint ?
In turn IIRC I think that it was because it was *nix specific, and no-one had the time to offer a portable version. There are a lot of little grotty jobs in the core development that just aren't getting done because there aren't fun or simple, so aren't very rewarding for the volunteers involved. To which I should append my thanks to Schwern for continuing to volunteer his time to deal with the non-small, not-fun job of herding MakeMaker. Nicholas Clark
