On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 01:39:40PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >Brendan O'Dea wrote: >> I am presently working on packages for Perl 5.6.1 and would like to drop >> the compatibility directories from @INC which are included to cope with >> packages built with the perl-5.005 and perl-5.6 packages. > >Won't this have the potential to cause horrid things during partial >upgrades (of perl but not of all perl modules packages) and during >regular upgrades (for example, if perl is upgraded first, then some >postinst is ran that uses debhelper, and the potato debhelper is still >installed, perl will not be able to find the debhelper modules, and >things will break).
I guess that you meant debconf here, the modules of which are arch-indep and installed under /usr/lib/perl5. This directory remains in @INC. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
