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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

tags 628042 + confirmed
thanks

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 06:09:28PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> After the upgrade to perl 5.12, a file creation in a suid Perl script
> no longer works. AFAIK the perl upgrade isn't supposed to introduce
> backward incompatible changes (at least nothing was announced).

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.

Dominic.

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