Re: Ports page - about to be reset - patches weclome!

-=| Mark A. Stratman, Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 12:13:09PM -0500 |=-
> Can somebody briefly explain the criteria for appending a '+patches' to
> the Perl version? e.g. as far as I can tell, every Debian perl
> package has patches (from looking at the debian package Changelog
> files), but only one is flagged as such.

Huh? Where do you see that?

According to http://packages.qa.debian.org/perl the available versions 
of the 'perl' package are:
 5.10.0-19lenny3  lenny (currently oldstable)
 5.10.1-17        squeeze (currently stable)
 5.10.1-18        wheezy (currently testing) and sid (alias unstable)
 5.12.3-2         (experimental)

Looking at the output of 'perl -V' (on all versions above) brings no 
matches of '+patches'.

By the way, the list of patches applied to the 'perl' package is 
available at http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/perl

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