23.12.2008
My first patch for Perl ...(has been accepted)
*coughs*, ok - it's not a biggie. I was smoke testing Perl on NetBSD 5.0_BETA and noticed the failures. Hubertf and me looked around, chatted in irc and found something weird inside the hints file for NetBSD. The osversion is being tested and the match is for 1.*,2.*,3.*,4.* - hej, 5 is missing! Anyway, I corrected it, smoked it and finally I sent the bug to the perl5-porters list. I've attached a small patch to it and pointed out why the 5.* needs to be added. After a short time I got a message back telling me:
Thanks, applied as 7f98bb4e5817790bc537b480552504b79734edd5 Welcome to perl5-porters AND to smoking!Welcome to the nice Perl community. Let's see if I manage to get more patches out of pkgsrc to upstream.
trivial - but it's a nice feeling to improve free software, at least a bit References
