Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Given that perl generally provides an option for backward compatibility > to a previous release, it would seem that a cleaner alternative is > available. I have prepared a set of non-versioned `perl', `perl-base', > etc. packages for 5.6.0 to demonstrate the proposal: > > http://master.debian.org/~bod/perl/
FWIW, I'm very happily using these debs and running perl 5.6 without problems. > The current test packages have a perlapi version of 5.005-5.6.0-0test2, > so the dependencies are met, as they are if a later version removes the > 5.005 compatibility (the version changing to say 5.6.0-5.6.1-5). If this later version removes 5.005 compatability, we do have to rebuild all binary perl modules pretty quickly or in a staging area, right? Cause it'll be impossible to have an old binary module package installed with the new perl.. -- see shy jo
