On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:28:08PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
>in woody, what is the canonical way to make a package depend on Perl?

See ยง3 of the perl-policy document in /usr/share/perl-5.005-doc.  If you
are using debhelper, the dh_perl program should work it out for you.

Basically, programs and perl-only modules should depend on perl5, while
binary modules should depend on perl-5.005 (perl-5.6, whatever).

Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea                                        [email protected]
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