Bug#588017: perl: current directory in @INC potentially harmful

[Ansgar Burchardt]

package   perl
forwarded 588017 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg162729.html
thanks

Hi,

Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:

> While I agree it's potentially harmful, I think fixing it has a very
> high risk of breaking user scripts. It's definitely not something to do
> in a stable security update, and I'm not enthusiastic about diverging
> from upstream at all here.

I agree.  This is very likely to break things.

> Ansgar, could you please discuss this upstream on the perl5-porters
> list?

Just sent a message there [1].  Let's see what they think about this.

Regards,
Ansgar

[1] <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg162729.html>