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Heroic, valiant efforts (Score:1)

by DAxelrod (4649) on 2006.12.13 15:33 (#52271) Journal
How about the tale of how cascade failure resulting in a thrid of CPAN being uninstallable was averted?

For more info see:
- The p5p summary [perl.org] (Look at the "New Core Module Releases" section and the comments on that use.perl entry)
- The qa mailing list thread [mail-archive.com] on which the problem was discussed
- Schwern's postortem [perl.org] (yay, happy endings!)
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