I was wondering if there was any news on packages for Perl 5.6. I saw "Darren/Torin/Who Ever"'s email back on June 4th, but it's already July with no more news. I'm not a Debian developer, but if the packages were made available I'd be willing to test them out. Hopefully, they would install in an alternative location so that it won't kill my system, but it should be relatively easy to remove it and reinstall 5.005, right?
I've downloaded and installed the source on my Solaris 7 boxes at work and I need to run 5.6 at home also. If "official" packages are not forthcoming could anyone comment on any potential issues with downloading the source and compiling into /usr/local? If this is the first directory in the path would that break existing Perl scripts, such as any used by apt/dpkg/dselect? Thanks, Fred Reimer
