Bug#555733: libcgi-pm-perl: CGI::Utils::escape encodes wrongly to UTF-8

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Niko Tyni, Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:28:47PM +0200 |=-
> Just for clarification: the perl-modules package contains the module
> versions released with the Perl core, and the separate libcgi-pm-perl
> package is provided for those who need a newer (and thus hopefully
> improved) version of CGI.pm.
> 
> Assuming we want to fix this for lenny, I think it therefore makes more
> sense to do it in libcgi-pm-perl than in perl-modules. I'm open to other
> suggestions though.

ACK. Update of perl-modules is perhaps too cumbersome.

> As for whether this meets the stable update criteria: I think the 
> impact
> is big enough for a fix and this is a regression from Etch, I'm just a
> bit afraid of it breaking something else. While that does seem improbable,
> I'd love to hear the opinions of others in the Debian Perl group.

I agree.

> I'm attaching an updated patch for 3.38-2, including the related 
> test suite improvement.

The patch looks fine to me.

-- 
dam
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