Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: pr@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item: Perl 5.26 update
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 16:15:24
Message-Id: 20171007161514.GE24569@gengoff
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item: Perl 5.26 update by "Andreas K. Huettel"
1 On 2017-10-07 17:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
2 > …
3 > This release brings several incompatible changes, also as a
4 > consequence of fixing a security problem [1].
5
6 This reads kind of awkwardly. Maybe something along this lines of:
7
8 This release brings several incompatible changes as a result of
9 deprecations coming to term [#] and mitigating a potential security
10 issue [#].
11
12 I wouldn’t really consider the security risk eliminated, but
13 mitigated as the vector of attack remains if program or module adds the
14 current working directory to @INC on its own. The interpreter just isn’t
15 adding it to @INC.
16
17 > Typical errors are
18 > "Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the inc::... module)"
19 > "error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’"
20 > "Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ..."
21
22 I would make this look more like a proper list.
23
24 Typical errors are:
25 * Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the
26 inc::... module)
27 * error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’
28 * Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item: Perl 5.26 update Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>