I just noticed that if I update a response I've previously made, as I did a short while ago in Problems after Perl was updated on FreeBSD., this doesn't trigger that thread appearing in [id://Recently Active Threads] if it has already gone stale. Perhaps this is the intended behavior (is it?) and perhaps for minor updates this is the preferred method I should use (is it?)

What if the update is several days later (this was)? What if it seems important (perhaps this one was, as it regards critical update procedures for Perl on FreeBSD if upgrading to Perl 5.8.8 which entered the ports tree 2006-02-20 just in time for the FreeBSD 6.1 prerelease ports freeze)? Should I /msg the OP (assuming they don't get notified automatically)? Reply to myself or the OP instead of doing an update, to increase visibility of the thread? I don't have moderation powers.

As a separate question, should a major Perl version bump in the FreeBSD ports tree go to [id://Perl News], if I was to notice the next one in a more timely way?

In reply to Preferred procedures for updating PM nodes by madizen

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