Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item: Perl 5.26 update

["Aaron W. Swenson" <titanofold@gentoo.org>]

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On 2017-10-07 17:03, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> …
> This release brings several incompatible changes, also as a
> consequence of fixing a security problem [1].

This reads kind of awkwardly. Maybe something along this lines of:

    This release brings several incompatible changes as a result of
    deprecations coming to term [#] and mitigating a potential security
    issue [#].

I wouldn’t really consider the security risk eliminated, but
mitigated as the vector of attack remains if program or module adds the
current working directory to @INC on its own. The interpreter just isn’t
adding it to @INC.

> Typical errors are 
>    "Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the inc::... module)"
>    "error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’"
>    "Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ..."

I would make this look more like a proper list.

    Typical errors are:
      * Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the
        inc::... module)
      * error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’
      * Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ...

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