On 03/12/2014 21:57, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
>> Sure, if that was truly the case nor would I, but if you are running that >> old perl, there is plenty of stuff thats outdated, and not all of the >> goodness gets backports, not just with perl, but with most other things. > I can't fight every windmill and changing how distros work re: versions of > perl is one I choose not to battle. > > Regards, > KAM Oh absolutely! But why is it SA's problem? Or for that mater, any up-stream's problem if distro X wants to only maintain version_released_in_BC or some such, I mean if, and lets take Redhat for example (not singling RH out, because debian are just as bad, if not worse), they turn around and decide that RHEL since v5 will now be supported for 10 years, not 5, at what point do you draw the line and say " well RH that's your problem " N
