Dear Karanbir,
if we have axiom, I believe it's still valid, that we are lim 100 pct binary compatible with upstream, patched perl package should be pushed out via centosplus.
Thats a good point. however, couple of things to consider here:
- were not pushing perl to everyone by putting it in fasttrack, people
need to opt into that repo manually.
I guess this is the first time where CentOS fasttrack is faster then RH's. I agree with David that even ft should not differ from upstream in that way.
- This is essentially a bugfix, with low enough Release tag that the
next update from upstream will be > EVR
- There is strong indication from upstream that they will push a version
of perl into 5.2, either as an update or into fastrack; and this is likely to happen soon.
- Putting these perl packages into centosplus also raises the issue of
how we would maintain perl in centosplus for the rest of the life of centos4/5 ; And I dont really see enough reason to maintain perl there.
The other, very real, option is to say : lets leave them in the -Testing repo and just create enough info at the right places ( bugzilla.r.c bugs.c.o, blog posts etc ) - on how users might get the packages from the Testing repo. My pref is still to push via fasttrack though, given the nature of the other packages that are also in the Testing repo.
'Testing' sounds great. I guess RH will push an bugfix release soon as this has now been discussed a lot in the public. Then the 'CentOS Fix' will be obsolete and may be removed from Testing.
Best Regards Marcus