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Re: the "require" branch, maintperl, and security

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From:
David Golden
Date:
August 2, 2012 07:34
Subject:
Re: the "require" branch, maintperl, and security
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CAOeq1c-s5Tc=e1tdsPwkhCNZ3kT9XUJ23CBaaMk5dqKbvGHSUQ@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
>> The answer to the disagreement here is not obvious to me without more time, and
>> we've classified this problem as only a bug fix, rather than a critical
>> security issue, so I am tempted to get 5.16.1 shipped for the CLEAR bug fixes
>> rather than wait much longer for this.
>
> I don’t see why this would need to be backported to 5.16.1.

I do think it should be backported to maint, but I don't think we have
to hold up 5.16.1 to get it right.  It can wait to 5.16.2.

-- David

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