On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 14:53 +0200, Firmicus wrote: > I've sent the following message to Kevin a week ago, but since he has > not responded, I thought it was best to raise the issue on this list. > > --- > > Perl 5.10.0 suffers from a few bugs, which have been fixed in > Strawberry Perl (for Windows) and Debian. > > I would really like to apply the latest Debian patch for Perl 5.10.0 > (description at http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/perl/5.10.0-23 > and patch at > http://patch-tracking.debian.net/patch/nondebian/dl/perl/5.10.0-23). > I know our our policy is to be as vanilla as possible, but take it as > the exception that confirms the rule > (and a consequence of the fact that perl releases occur at an extremely > slow pace). > > My PKGBUILD and the debian patch with my modifications to get > rid of Debian-specific stuff are here: > http://archlinux.org/~francois/perl_pkgbuild+patch.tar.gz > It compiles well here and "make test" passes all the tests. I have used it > without problem for two weeks now. > If you agree, I can upload the packages for both arches to testing this > evening. > > NB: the Debian patch takes care of FS#13901 > BTW, any opinion on FS#10971 and FS#13808 ? > > Best, > F
You might want to look at fedora, they have a bunch of standalone patches, usually with descriptions or changelogs: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/perl/devel/
