Module::Metadata in Taint Mode

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Sep 11 22:49:20 UTC 2013


On 09/11/2013 06:47 PM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> There are no hard and fast rules, but in the case of dual-lived modules
> we certainly aim to minimise divergence with the separately-packaged
> module in cases like this. We are much more likely to apply patches
> which are in at least blead upstream than ones which aren't. We're a bit
> less conservative than upstream are for maint branches (their maint
> policy favours users manually installing newer versions of dual-lived
> modules from CPAN whereas that doesn't make so much sense for Debian,
> for example). And Niko will correct me here if he disagrees with
> anything :)

OK, thanks for the explanation!  And thanks to you and Niko and carnil
for being on top of all of this.  It's very much appreciated.

	--dkg

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