On Jul 4, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Daniel Macks <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16:47:22 +0200, Peter Dyballa <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Am 04.07.2013 um 15:56 schrieb Richard Miles:
>> 
>> > The following package will be installed or updated:
>> > xml-sax-pm588
>> 
>> On Snow Leopard you have Perl 5.10 and should get rid of everything 
>> depending on Perl 5.8.8! Because this Perl version is not installed in Mac 
>> OS X 10.6.8. 
> 
> For some semblance of compatibility, fink supplies the perl versions of 
> several older OSX on certain platforms--especially the "one OS X previous 
> standard". So OS X 10.6 is perl5.10.0 but fink also supplies 5.8.8 becuse 
> that's what OS X 10.5 was. Of course one should tend towards using newer 
> versions. But fink should do the right thing and keep doing whatever you were 
> doing. This is a missing dependency in a package, which has nothing directly 
> to do with the perl version. It only works at all on any platform because 
> apple supplies some nonstandard perl features. 
> CCing maintainer... 
> danielj: xml-sax-pmXXX needs Depends:xml-sax-base-pm, which doesn't exist. 
> dan
> 
> --
> Daniel Macks
> [email protected]
> 
> 

Yes, I just realized this. I didn't notice since system perl on 10.8 already 
has XML::SAX::Exception. I've now added xml-sax-base-pm and changed xml-sax-pm 
to Depend on it. Let me know if there are any further problems as I can't 
actually test with perl 5.8.8.

Daniel
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