On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:53:00 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: Coming back to this "old" bug ...
> I would prefer not to break things for older versions of Perl (even if > they're ancient and awful) where possible. In this case it wasn't > overly *difficult* to accomodate, but it sure is ugly. I'm hoping > upstream will come up with something better, though I'll propose it as > a fix. Upstream hasn't responded yet, shall we upload in the meantime? > I added a feature (per your advice) to warn if Perl_seed isn't > available. AFAICS this line (cluck "Your perl") is not in svn. > If this is acceptable to you I'll try to get it uploaded. Othwise the patch looks (to my ignorant eyes) quite similar to Don's second proposal. I guess we should decide if we wait for upstream (and set the package to UNRELEASED) or finish and upload soon. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT, SPI Inc., fellow of FSFE | http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Beatles
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