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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-02-26 13:03:54 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-03-06 08:15:56 +0000
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maint policy: Note that old regressions are acceptable too
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@@ -275,7 +275,8 @@ functionality or negatively impact performance.
=item *
Patches that fix regressions in perl's behavior relative to previous
-releases.
+releases, no matter how old the regression, since some people may
+upgrade from very old versions of perl to the latest version.
=item *