Re: Perl disaster in the making
Whoops, I thought Steve's post was to debian-perl.
People on debian-perl are aware of the problem. I doubt most
developers, let alone users tracking unstable are aware. Unless
you scream on devel, your message will reach few eyes and
fewer brains.
*John Lapeyre wrote:
>
> People on this list are well aware of the problem.
> It may be a good idea to send an ALL CAPS message to devel and
> even user, warning people following unstable that the perl 5.005
> is now installed. Of course you are supposed to be careful using
> unstable, but I think it's a small amount of noise on the list
> compared to the problems it could avert.
> On the development side. Someone (Raphael, Darren ?) sent
> a list to people with perl-dependent packages explaining that
> they should upload as soon as possible.
>
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Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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