The following reply was made to PR pkg/18777; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/18777
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:10:30 -0500

 On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:04:12PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 >On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:06:07AM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
 >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:59:10PM +0000, wiz@netbsd.org wrote:
 >> >Synopsis: perl's POSIX::strftime() routinely gets gmtoff and zone wrong
 >> >
 >> >Responsible-Changed-From-To: pkg-manager->jlam
 >> >Responsible-Changed-By: wiz@netbsd.org
 >> >Responsible-Changed-When: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:59:06 +0000
 >> >Responsible-Changed-Why:
 >> >Over to maintainer.
 >> 
 >> fwiw, i think perl 5.8 has this fixed because of a pr i filed there.
 >
 >So let's close this PR, since 5.8 is the default perl
 >in pkgsrc now anyway -- do you agree?
 
 works for me.  especially since the default perl passes the tests i
 posted in the original pr.  :)
 
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