Perl upgrade risks

From: Antonio Lobato (tom.lobato_at_terra.com.br)
Date: 06/29/05

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            Hello!

            I have a Debian Woody server running a lot of services such as
    cyrus/postfix, apache, mysql-server, jabberd2, and more... Such as a
    good woody system, my Perl is 5.6.1, and there are tons of scripts
    that I made and even normal system scripts that uses this perl
    version. Now I'll install a software (bandersnatch, for jabberd2 chat
    logging) that needs Perl 5.8.0 a least.

            Well, I can pinning the system to woody/oldstable and upgrade only
    Perl to 5.8.7 (stable), but my question is: Will such Perl upgrade
    (from 5.6.1 to 5.8.7) break some old script?
            
            This is a production server and I have to be sure that I can do it. I
    already googled, searched deb-mail-lists but Im not yet sure aboute it.

            Thank you
            Tom 

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