Dear Matt, >> Who/what is "upstream": perl5-porters, or the Debian maintainer? I still >> hope to get somewhere with perl5-porters; the patches I submitted to >> #203426 and #220486 are "proper" (so maybe permanent). > > I'm not familiar with perl5-porters, but if they are the folks who decide > what goes into the version of Perl that is the source for Debian and other > vendors' perl packages, then yes, they are upstream.
That is right: perl5-porters is upstream from Debian. I find it puzzling that Debian has used "known broken" patches (over and above the "upstream" code), instead of the "proper" ones. Cheers, Paul Szabo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia
