consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Hello, Considering how unstable perl 5.80 currently is, wouldn't it be wise to regress sid back to perl 5.60 and move 5.80 into experimental instead? So far this upgrade has done major damage to dpkg by breaking install-info making any additional glibc builds in sid impossible. I have also

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Jack Howarth wrote: Hello, Considering how unstable perl 5.80 currently is, wouldn't it be wise to regress sid back to perl 5.60 and move 5.80 into experimental instead? So far this upgrade has done major damage to dpkg by breaking install-info making any additional

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Adam, Well it will be one thing if the debian perl maintainers are going to actively track down and fix these critical perl bugs on their own. However if we are going to passively wait for fixes from upstream, perhaps perl 5.80 will introduce a bit too much breakage for right now. I mean dpkg

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:48:21PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: Adam, Well it will be one thing if the debian perl maintainers are going to actively track down and fix these critical perl bugs on their own. However if we are going to passively wait for fixes from upstream, perhaps perl 5.80

Re: consider regression of perl!

2002-08-26 Thread Jack Howarth
Dan, Then you might take a stab at debugging the testcase from the bugzilla report... https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69254 ...since it sounds similar. If it isn't then we have another bug to fix. Jack