Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > However, I would only agree to this if someone steps up to organize a > staging area so that we can make sure that *every single perl package* > is converted *before* the new perl is released, along with a package > of an appropriately reconfigured perl-5.005. > > Otherwise, this intentionally backwards-incompatible scheme will cause > people tracking woody to suffer random, sometimes severe, breakage > over an indeterminate period of time while some packages are converted > and others aren't, depending on people's availablity to either convert > their packages or do NMUs.
I don't see why. As bod said: > Note that /usr/lib/perl5 should not really be included, although will be > required transitionally for backward compatibility with current modules. The real catch to watch out for is that any modules that use /usr/share/perl will need to depend on perl 5.6, wince they will fail to work with older perl packages. -- see shy jo
