perl 5.8.8-12 source package in Ubuntu

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perl (5.8.8-12) unstable; urgency=high

  * SECURITY [CVE-2007-5116] (closes: #450456): Apply patch from
    Will Drewry and Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team to fix a
    UTF-8 related heap overflow in Perl's regular expression compiler,
    probably allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling
    specially crafted regular expressions.

  * Support "nocheck" option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS (closes: #449549).
  * Suppress Configure test for ualarm() so that setitimer() emulation
    is used (closes: #448965).

perl (5.8.8-11.1) unstable; urgency=high

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * Urgency high because of RC bug fix.
  * Fix h2ph to generate a correct check to distinguish i386/amd64 systems.
    (Closes: #443785)

perl (5.8.8-11) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove arm and alpha special cases (closes: #443353).

perl (5.8.8-10) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add support for SH4 arch (closes: #424867).
  * Add --strip-unneeded when stripping shared objects.
  * Include stripped debugging symbols for perl and libperl.so in
    /usr/lib/debug in perl-debug package (closes: #433631).

  * Switch to libdb4.6 (closes: #427517).
  * Re-instate libcgi-fast-perl, relocating module to vendor directory
    (closes: #443236).

perl (5.8.8-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Fix perl-base replaces after move of PVA.pl etc.
  * Remove ancient conflicts on perl-transition packages (perl-5.004, etc).
  * Bump dependency of perl-modules on perl to version after move of
    modules to perl-base (closes: #377385).

  * Pod/Man.pm: preserve quote chars in verbatim paragraphs (closes: #393810).
  * Fix typo in Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 docs (closes: #320060).

perl (5.8.8-8) unstable; urgency=low

  * Include unicore/{PVA,Exact,Canonical}.pl in perl-base (closes: #437142).
  * Install libnet.cfg in /etc/perl/Net (closes: #425850).
  * Update makedepend.SH from perl-current to handle changed
    preprocessor output from new gcc (closes: #381703).

  * Fix CGI::upload when fileno == 0 (closes: #383378).
  * Abort CPAN setup if stdin is not a tty (closes: #246511).
  * Bump gcc build-depends to 4.2 and remove workaround added for register
    declaration problems in g++ 4.1 (closes: #378399).

  * Replace '_' with '.' in conflict version for libattribute-handlers-perl
    (closes: #403249).

  * Fix hang when using study + taint (closes: #415296).
  * Remove libcgi-fast-perl as a separate package (closes: #422592).
  * Pod/Man.pm: escape backslashes in index entries (closes: #440448).
  * Pod/Html.pm: Fix handling of nested definition lists (closes: #423168).

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>   Tue,  27 Nov 2007 10:15:15 +0000

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Original maintainer:
Brendan O'Dea
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