Le Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 11:34:23PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman écrivait: > I noticed that the installation of perl5.005 in the archive is causing > some serious problems. When I try to select it I immediately have to > remove lots of other packages (including dpkg-dev!) since the new > packages don't provide perl anymore.
Why on earth do you want perl-5.005 right now ? Apt would not install it automatically if you use apt-get upgrade. You could simply install perl-5.004 and live with that until we've updated all packages. We know that perl-5.005 conflicts with perl and it has been done so for a good reason. That's why all packages that depends on perl needs to be updated. Including dpkg-dev ! BTW, should I do an NMU of dpkg for this ? Because I think that nobody else will do it anyway despite my automated mail asking for the update ... > I think this is a big problem: there should be a way to depend on a > general perl interpreter and not care if it's perl4, perl5, etc, > and all perl packages should provide it. Wichert, please, let us do the right thing. It's probable that a perl5 script would not work with perl4. The same problem will (may) appear again with perl6 and perl5. If you are not happy with this situation right now, recompile perl-5.005 for you without the conflicts line. Believe us, it's better to make perl-5.005 conflict with perl in order to be sure that everything has been updated to the new policy than to make perl-5.005 provide perl and have half of the perl scripts broken (because some modules won't be found). Cheers, -- Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/
