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Dag Wieers wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote:
should explore the problem further with TUV and the CentOS community. If a fix is not forthcoming from TUV, I reluctantly suggest that we get together with the CentOS people and fork this portion of the distro, perhaps standardizing on Perl 5.10 . There are people in the Perl community ready to assist us.
While forking the whole perl subsection of the distro is a bit drastic, I am quite happy to have a perl in C5Plus. Does someone want to get in touch with Keith and get a summary on what needs fixing in this case ? Also - if the conversation was to take place on centos-devel list, would be much cooler.
Upstream have said the fix will be in 5U3, and considering that might be still a few months away, could we get something sorted before then ?
To be honest, if this problem was part of RHEL5 since its inception and only a few people until now have actually been bugged by it. I don't see a good reason to release something now only because someone was able to make a big poo out of it and got to slashdot.
We do not want to give attention-seekers more airtime, before we know it everyone who finds a bug starts shouting.
(Don't read me wrong, of course it should be fixed, I am just concerned about the motives and the generality of this bug wrt. other bugs.)
I understand from the MailScanner mailinglist that if you get hit by he bug SpamAssassin is going to be hit in a dramatic way. I understood that a normal 4 seconds of parsing becomes at least 40 minutes.
This means that if you get hit by it it will be extremely painful on a MailScanner system.
Hugo.
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