Ubuntu CPAN

[Andy Armstrong]

On 4 Nov 2007, at 18:19, alex at owal.co.uk wrote:
> The list of CPAN modules already packaged up is pretty good
> (eg see http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/perl/ for the Gutsy Gibbon  
> 7.10
> release) but every so often I see something missing - and then have to
> resort back to old reliable "sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell ;"


They've got some seriously out of date module versions on that list...  
Their bundled CGI::Simple is lagging at least six months and some  
reasonably important bug fixes.

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Andy Armstrong, Hexten