Bug#637050: Package perl-suid v5.12.x is not available in repositories [sid] and [experimental]

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 03:32:03AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote:
> Currently when migrating from [squeeze] to [sid] I have faced the
> following problem:
> 
> - The package "perl" was upgraded from 5.10 to 5.12 [OK]
> - The package "perl-suid" was simply removed (as no corresponding
> version was found in [sid] or [experimental])
> 
> This causes troubles in installations that rely on perl-suid.

Yes, this is correct; suidperl has been removed upstream, so it has
gone from the Debian pacakge too. Any package using suidperl in Debian
should now have a bug open against it, if it hasn't already been fixed
to not use suidperl.

It's regrettable that this functionality was removed, but there was no
interest in maintaining it upstream, so its removal was inevitable.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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