[illumos-Developer] Heads up: perl 5.8.4 removal

[Joerg Schilling]

John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a heads-up mainly for distribution maintainers
>
> with the putback of:
>
> 377 removal of perl 5.8.4
>
> Perl 5.8.4 and it's packages ( perl-584, perl-584/extras ) are no longer being delivered. One important result of this is that the /usr/perl5/bin/perl and /usr/bin/perl is also not being delivered.

What porpose does this change have?

What problem does this change fix?

Jörg

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