[debhelper-devel] Remove export of PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC in the future

Niels Thykier niels at thykier.net
Tue Aug 30 15:59:00 UTC 2016


Dominic Hargreaves:
> Hi maintainers,
> 
> Thanks very much for applying the patches in #832436 for the
> remove-cwd-in-inc issue in perl. One of these changes, to export
> PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC, is not a good long-term solution, and I will file
> bugs against packages which would otherwise be broken in due course
> with a view to requesting removal of that export in debhelper at some
> point after stretch's release.
> 
> Would you be happy for me to file a wishlist bug against this to act
> as a reminder, and to block with the bugs I will file against affected
> packages?
> 
> No hurry on this, but I wanted to make sure it didn't get forgotten.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dominic.
> 
> [...]

By all means, please go ahead. :)

Thanks,
~Niels





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