On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 12:08:33AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: >On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:43:17PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: [...] >> There have been quite a few changes, so a dist-upgrade will be required >> to install these. > >AAARGH!!!! > >You didn't say that these few changes would cause a dist-upgrade to >remove half the system.
Because they were not intended to do so, and demonstrably do not. >There's no "Provides: perl5" in the transitional perl-5.6 package!!! >Please, please, fix this by the next dinstall run. That will give >people more than three days' notice to fix their packages! The perl package provides perl5. The perl-5.6 transitional package requires perl. People do not need to fix their packages immediately (although should in time). Note: the packages for non-i386 have not all been built as yet, and since the dummy transition packages are arch "all", this problem will manifest on such architectures until the binary packages are available. I would have mentioned this caveat in my previous mail, however in truth it did not occur to me at the time. My appologies. Binary packages currently exist for: i386, sparc and ia64. alpha is in incoming. A minor issue with powerpc should be resolved shortly. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
