--- 
author: 
  email: rafl@fsfe.org
  keyid: 742f2a428e635a5e
  name: Florian Ragwitz
categories: 
  - Debian
date: 2005-09-22T15:01:15Z
guid: bdabc2dd-dc0d-44c2-b48e-51c1a1ba87bb
modified: 2005-09-22T15:01:15Z
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summary: " Today I reported quite a lot of bugs against …"
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text: "    Today I reported quite a lot of bugs against outdated Perl packages.\n    I did that semi-automatically using a small script that compares\n    versions of packages in Debian and on CPAN. I didn't made a public\n    announcement or warning before so I got flamed right away. However,\n    I think it improved the quality of Perl packages in Debian a bit.\n    Until know around 20 packages with, partially vintage versions, have\n    been updated since this morning. I guess a lot more will follow.\n"
title: Mass Bug Filing
type: pod
uri: http://perldition.org/articles/Mass%20Bug%20Filing.pod
xhtml: "<div class=\"pod\">\n<p>Today I reported quite a lot of bugs against outdated Perl packages. I did that\nsemi-automatically using a small script that compares versions of packages in\nDebian and on CPAN. I didn't made a public announcement or warning before so I\ngot flamed right away. However, I think it improved the quality of Perl\npackages in Debian a bit. Until know around 20 packages with, partially vintage\nversions, have been updated since this morning. I guess a lot more will follow.</p>\n\n\n</div>"