On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:21:47PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> Changes: >> perl (5.8.4-8sarge4) stable; urgency=low >> . >> * Don't generate broken md5sums for libperl5.8 (closes: #354466). >> * Preserve timestamps in /usr/share/doc. >> * Fix problem with utf8/taint interaction (thanks to Steinar >> Gunderson for analysis/patch). >> . >> * Fix test of reenterant function return values which was causing >> perl to malloc itself to death if ERANGE was encountered before >> ENOENT (such as a long line in /etc/group; see: #227621). > >we noticed that you uploaded perl. Could you please give a more verbose >reasoning why this upload should go into the next stable point release. >Your changelog did not really point out which of the issues are release >critical.
The primary fix is to allow utf8 to be used with taint. >Please also note that this upload was especially problematic since it >overwrote an security upload. Which security upload would that be? The changes from sarge3 are included in this upload. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
