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On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 07:14:23AM -0700, James E Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 07:41:13 GMT, slaven@rezic.de wrote:
> > Dana Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:42:36 -0700,
> > andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de reče:
> > > (Resending article
> > > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/04/msg243905.html
> > > with the attachment inline)
> > >
> > > From: Andreas Koenig <andreas.koenig.7os6VVqR@franz.ak.mind.de>
> > > To: Mailing list Perl5 <perl5-porters@perl.org>
> > > Subject: Pull request CPAN-2.18-TRIAL
> > > Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:59:50 +0200
> > > Message-ID: <87r31571e1.fsf@k85.linux.bogus>
> > >
> > > CPAN-2.17-TRIAL tried to narrow the scope to the phases prepare,
> > > make,
> > > and test, but after some testing evidence took shape that
> > > PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 is also needed for the install phase.
> > >
> > > 2.18 provides this change. The second issue fixed in 2.18 addresses
> > > #120781, an ugly bug with a trivial fix.
> > >
> > > All tests are green at the time of this writing:
> > > http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=CPAN%202.18-TRIAL
> > >
> > > Sorry for the inconvenience and the long time it took to understand
> > > the
> > > issue.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > I find this issue quite critical. Currently large parts of the CPAN
> > appear broken. Will the issue be addressed in 5.25.12?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Slaven
>
> I hope so, but since we're in code freeze it's the pumpking's
> prerogative as to when to merge this into blead and/or when to generate
> a perl-5.25.12.
But we're kind of ignoring the code freeze for important @INC-related
issues. So I've merged it with v5.25.11-57-g755cc9a
> But I would also like to ask: Do we have a plan for when, subsequent to
> perl-5.26.0, we have CPAN.pm -- and other CPAN installers -- revert to
> PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=0?
Presumably when enough of the distributions out there have been fixed to
install themselves without this crutch. For some definition of "enough".
--
Counsellor Troi states something other than the blindingly obvious.
-- Things That Never Happen in "Star Trek" #16
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