perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
I have a package (debconf) that uses lib.pm. This is in perl-5.00[54]. It depends on perl5. I just installed a fresh unstable system, using the defaults. perl-5.004-base and perl-5.004 were installed, as was perl-5.005-base. perl-5.005 itself was not installed. perl -v says perl 5.005 is being

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: I have a package (debconf) that uses lib.pm. This is in perl-5.00[54]. It depends on perl5. I just installed a fresh unstable system, using the defaults. perl-5.004-base and perl-5.004 were installed, as was perl-5.005-base. perl-5.005

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Towns wrote: Huh? perl-5.005 is priority: important, and it doesn't seem to conflict with anything else. How come it didn't get installed? I dunno. I installed the base system from cd, went into dselect, selected nothing that wasn't automatically selected, and installed, then went on to

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 11:28:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: Yick. Perhaps the alternative priorities could be arranged differently? That doesn't address the real problem, which is that one version of perl may be installed and satisfy the dependancy, while the alternatives system makes another

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait: What am I supposed to do? I could make debconf depend on perl-5.005, but it really works with any version of perl 5. Also, if only perl-5.004-base, perl-5.005, and perl-5.005-base were installed, and the alternatives pointed

Re: perl dependancy problem

1999-10-06 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: What am I supposed to do? I could make debconf depend on perl-5.005, but it really works with any version of perl 5. Also, if only perl-5.004-base, perl-5.005, and perl-5.005-base were installed, and the alternatives pointed