Bug#865411: perl: please backport zlib > 1.2.9 patches

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:25:16AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 20:17:48 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > > > Just to be clear, this is in Compress-Raw-Zlib that has already 
> > > > (according to https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119762)
> > > > been fixed in 2.74, which is already in blead and perl 5.26 (which is
> > > > in experimental).
> > > The Ubuntu patches and the second bug also reference IO-Compress, not
> > > sure if that's upstream yet.
> > My reading is that no change in IO-Compress was needed once
> > Compress-Raw-Zlib was fixed. And the CPAN bug was resolved with
> > no code change in IO-Compress.
> 
> In any case, both are updated to the latest version in unstable (and
> they are released in lockstep), so I assume no problems there.

This is about the version bundled with perl itself which is not yet fixed
in unstable. But good to point out that the separate packaged versions
don't need a separate bug report :)

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/perl/perl.git/tree/cpan/Compress-Raw-Zlib/lib/Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm#n12