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Steve Hay via perl5-porters <perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote: :Recent discussions surrounding a fix for a security issue have revealed a :shortcoming in some of the wording in perlpolicy.pod regarding what is :acceptable for backporting to maint releases. : :The current wording, which dates back to when Jesse Vincent first added the :whole maint policy section back in 2010, says that patches that add new :warnings or errors are not acceptable, but makes no exception for security :issues. : :The suggestion has been made that fixing security issues should take :precedence over other considerations. I think this would be a sensible :change to make, and have reworded perlpolicy slightly along these lines in :the attached patch. +1 from me. Hugo