Martin Schulze wrote: > Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > > Joey Hess, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: > > >Do you have any plans to offer it as something like /usr/bin/perl-t? (or > > >would modules need to be rebuilt too?) > > > > It will be available as /usr/bin/perl5.00502-thread. I could manage the > > /usr/bin/perl-t as alternatives. No suidperl will be offered for this. > > Any debian packages and all architecture dependent packages will have to > > be recompiled. The 5.00502-thread will install itself under > > I guess after the new version of perl is installed in slink somebody should > file bugreports against all architecture-dependent perl packages, i.e. CPAN > modules with a severity of at least important so they will be either > recompiled > or removed with slink.
Let's wait till *after* the freeze and do that in the new unstable. Frankly, I think it's a bad idea to just break all those packages. Isn't there some way to create a smooth upgrade path? Richard Braakman