Subject: bug#10688: The default mode for Perl should be cperl-mode instead of perl-mode

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:41:23 -0400

Is cperl-mode.el in Emacs still not to be modified?
If someone reports a bug in cperl-mode can it be fixed without deferring
to upstream?
(I have no interest in modifying it, but in the past you've basically
said not to change it, IIUC.)