Re: licensing issues

[Simon Cozens]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:27:56AM +0000, David Grove wrote:
> However, maybe you can find out something for us. Specifically, why isn't
> Perl 5.6 a part of "official" Debian in this latest release, and 5.005_03
> still is?

simon@pembro26 ~/fonts % apt-cache show perl-5.6
Package: perl-5.6
Priority: important
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 11708
Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: i386
Version: 5.6.0-6.2
Replaces: data-dumper, perl, perl-5.6-base
Provides: data-dumper, perl5
Depends: perl-5.6-base (=5.6.0-6.2), libc6 (>= 2.1.97), libdb2, libgdbmg1
Pre-Depends: perl-base (>=5.004.04-2) | perl5-base
Suggests: perl-5.6-suid, perl-5.6-debug, perl-5.6-doc (=5.6.0-6.2)
Conflicts: data-dumper (<= 2.09-1)
Filename: pool/main/p/perl-5.6/perl-5.6_5.6.0-6.2_i386.deb
Size: 2767736

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