Bug#628042: perl: file creation in suid Perl script no longer works

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 03:04:49PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:33:57AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > Upstream removed suidperl support in 5.12. I think we should indeed
> > have announced this better (although you will have seen the perl-suid
> > package being removed). We don't seem to have a NEWS.Debian file in
> > the perl package; I wonder if this would be a suitable place to put
> > this information or whether it should eventually go somewhere like the
> > release notes for wheezy.
> 
> My initial feeling is that this is overkill.

(sorry, "this" above is referring to a NEWS.Debian entry.  I'm certainly
 not opposed to announcing the change better in other ways.)
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org