Bug#864745: Update on base.pm jessie point release

[Cyril Brulebois]

Hi Dominic,

Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> (2017-07-04):
> 1) this commit is identical to those now in upstream release candidates.
> 2) This has now been filed as #867164 (sorry that this was missing before)

Thanks for the update, much appreciated.

I have to say that giving you a green light to update perl in stable with this
kind of fix makes me a little nervous, sorry. :(

> 3) this particular bug doesn't strictly apply to stretch/sid, but we plan
>    to fix it in sid at least for consistency and to fix the minor remaining
>    security bug (see #867170)

I'm not sure how we feel about similar-yet-kind-of-different bugs in
other suites (as in: not sure whether fixing those would be considered
a hard requirement before an update in (old)stable).


KiBi.
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