Bug#677046: Bug#628493: perl: FTBFS on kfreebsd-i386: t/op/threads failed

Tue Sep 10 07:19:23 UTC 2013

>> If I remember correctly, the perl code expects something which is
>> not guaranteed by POSIX. But our new implementation provides this,
>> therefore we (kfreebsd) are not affected by this any longer.
>
> Indeed, although at one time you argued that it was a correctness
> fix anyway.
> We seem to have a consensus that that's not the case,

No, I still believe there is a general portability problem in perl part.

> so closing this.

It is OK, as no debian architecture is (now) affected.

Petr