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On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 05:10:44AM -0700, Kidney Bingos via RT wrote: > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 02:59:04PM -0700, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > 96d38a9d05abd090d07d5fb192de46417ec18593 is the import into blead > > of Digest-Sha 5.85, with the only code change being: > > > > - workaround for repeated calls to shaclose (ref. Bug #86295) > > -- need to explicitly reset internal pointer to NULL > > ref. shaclose() in SHA.xs > > > > (which was reported in Debian > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711206>) > > > > 5.18.0 contained 5.84, so a straight cherry-pick of this > > (fixing up Module::Corelist) would probably be within the spirit > > of the maint policy, although I note that it falls somewhere between > > > > ?? Updates to dual-life modules should consist of minimal patches to > > fix crashing or security issues (as above). > > > > and > > > > ?? New versions of dual-life modules should NOT be imported into > > maint. Those belong in the next stable series. > > > > > > [Please do not change anything below this line] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > > I've backported a minimal change for this in bingos/maint-5.18 branch. Thank you, this looks good to me, modulo a version bump (to 5.84_01 presumably) and perldelta. If there are no further comments, will you apply this to maint-5.18 or would you like me to? Cheers, Dominic.Thread Next