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Bug 641320

Summary:	Rebase to perl 5.8.9
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Petr Šabata <psabata>
Component:	perl	Assignee:	perl-maint-list
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.6	Keywords:	Rebase
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.9/pod/perl589delta.pod
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Rebase: Bug Fixes and Enhancements
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-12-22 15:38:28 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	548249, 559832, 675863, 676050

Description Petr Šabata 2010-10-08 12:17:52 UTC

The perl 5.8.9 upstream update provides various enhancements and bugfixes that would greatly benefit the Perl stack in RHEL-5.

Perl 5.8.9 delta:
http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.9/pod/perl589delta.pod

This release is ABI compatible with the currently shipped version (5.8.8).