Le Mon, Jun 21, 1999 at 12:18:19PM +0200, Richard Braakman écrivait: > It won't work. perl-base is Essential, and perl-5.005-base is not. > Should it be Essential? What is the whole setup?
You must always have /usr/bin/perl on a Debian system. /usr/bin/perl is provided by perl-5.00X-base package. So we decided to have a fake package perl-base that will be essential and that will depend on perl5-base that is provided by each perl-5.00X-base package. The perl-5.004-* package can be installed automatically because there's a new fake package depending on perl-5.004. This fake package will have to be removed for the transition to be complete. We decided that perl-5.005-base will conflict with perl so that all dependencies on perl will have to have vanished at that time. In fact all dependencies on perl will have to be replaced by a dependency to perl5 or perl-5.005 depending on the package (perl script/module/binary-module and so on). This have to be done for perl-5.005. The problem that Darren have is that he thinks that we should not be able to install perl-5.005-base if there's still an old perl-base (but no perl). Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
