On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:23:37PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: >Basically, perl-5.6-base needs to conflict with all earlier perl-5.004 >and perl-5.005 packages because of exactly this breakage. Unfortunatly, >that may not yet be possible. If we do want to keep old perl-5.004/5 >packages around, they should be updated to not try to use alternatives, >and perl-5.006-base should have a versioned conflicts with the older >versions that do use dependancies. > >Since there is not actually a bug on file about this (though bod and I >have discussed it before), here goes.
I believe that #80197 is related to installing perl-5.00[45] after perl-5.6. The changelog for -6.1 notes that this is a problem, but one that I was not prepared to fix as an NMU due to the scope. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
