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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

severity 588017 important
thanks

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 09:01:18PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> tag 588017 + squeeze-ignore
> thanks
> 
> On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 16:24 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:58:34AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > 
> > > Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Upstream agrees that this isn't readily fixable.
> > 
> > I think this means that a squeeze-ignore tag and/or a severity downgrade
> > would be appropriate here?
> 
> Doing the former at least, as there's no way this will be fixed in time
> for Squeeze.

And downgrading.

Dominic.

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