David Hrbáč wrote:
John Summerfield napsal(a):
How might a bug fix, and this one in particular, break binary compatibility? Does it change an API? Does it change the expected behaviour of PERL? (I'm assuming here that the current behaviour is _not_ expected behaviour).
John, this behaviour is expected to be in RH, so I expect it to be in Centos. I do not want start a new flame, but this is not extra issue. RH has a lot of stupid bugs centos is not patching... Broken pythnon https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243909, missing header files https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=178417 to mention a few.
According to KS, "And no this wont be the first time there is a centos fix public before rh's either."
I guess having patched perl in testing is better idea than put it to centosplus.
_I_ would prefer to pick it up automatically, without having to make special configuration changes or use unusual commandline arguments. I'm looking for someone to explain why it should not be so, and "binary compatibility" isn't it. Nor does the overview at www.centos.org explain why not.