Bug#731365: perl: regex makes other packages FTBFS, patch available

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 05:14:27PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.18.1-4
> Severity: serious
> Tags: patch

> in #723913 (see http://bugs.debian.org/723913) it turned out that FTBFS of
> latex2html and some packages FTBFSing (condor, starlink-ast) could be traced
> back to perl.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978233
> 
> suggests that perl's upstream commit f1e1b256c5c1773d90e828cca6323c53fa23391b
> fixes this.
> 
> I tested this and it works. :-)

Thanks! I'll try to get the fix in sid this weekend.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org