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From:
Jesse Vincent
Date:
May 5, 2010 08:12
Subject:
Re: 5.12.1 prep
Message ID:
20100505151204.GM23941@fsck.bestpractical.com



On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:22:34AM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> On 5 May 2010 03:53, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote:
> > I'm planning on cutting an RC0 on Friday. What do folks want merged that
> > hasn't yet been merged down?
> 
> As mentioned previously I think we should keep in sync
> Module::Corelist. This is more a policy decision.


I'm cool with that. Can you update perlpolicy.pod with a specific cutout
for Module::CoreList.
> 
> More (most?) doc patches should be merged too.

Doc-patch backporting is something I'd consider to be "good, but not
100% mandatory"

> Maybe Safe should be upgraded in maint. The latest is a bit more
> secure if you return coderefs from a Safe compartment; also, it won't
> break if you upgrade version.pm from CPAN.

I'm ok with that. Especially if the updated Safe has words that say
"don't use this!" or something like them ;)

> I'm not sure about some remaining code patches. Feedback from the
> patchers/appliers would be appreciated.

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