Re: pkg/48500: lang/perl5 cause an unaligned access exception.

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48500; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Eric Schnoebelen <eric%cirr.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/48500: lang/perl5 cause an unaligned access exception.
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 06:24:19 +0000

 On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 02:54:24PM -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
  > I'm integrating this into the tree, but I can't decide if I need
  > to bump PKGREVISION on perl or not.  The issue only affects
  > NetBSD/alpha (or maybe alpha's generically), and otherwise has
  > no effect.
  > 
  > And I'd like to avoid a huge churn on non-alpha platforms.
  > 
  > My inclination is not to bump it, as fixes an issue (poor
  > execution style) on one platform only.
  > 
  > Contrary opinions?
 
 Formally, you do, because it causes a change to the installed
 package.
 
 But I understand and appreciate your desire not to make everyone else
 rebuild Perl...
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost