Re: Perl 5.005 package
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Zephaniah E. Hull, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 07:35:01PM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
>> Yes, we've discussed this before. I even mentioned in my e-mail earlier
>> today why this is a problem. Since dpkg has problems with both
>> versioned provides and pre-depends with provides, we can't use provides
>> Perl. This problem goes away if dpkg gets fixed. I'm not basing my
>> hopes on this though.
>
>Err, ignore the Provides, whoops..
>(The current packages which depend on perl, when they get updated for
>the new perl, will change their depends to the perl5.005 package)
>
>The slightly modified perl5.004 will look where it currently looks,
>finding the perl modules for 5.004 (all the current ones)..
>
>perl5.005 looks in the new versioned directorys, not finding the old
>modules (which may be incompatible)..
1) Currently Perl 5.004 has files in /usr/lib/perl5/*. The package is
named perl.
2) Perl 5.005 will have files in /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/*. The package
will be named perl.
3) The new Perl 5.004 will have files in /usr/lib/perl5/*. The package
will be named perl5.004.
As I mentioned above, there is a need for the current Perl package to be
name perl. dpkg has too many heartaches with it as well as it being
rather inelegant. I don't want to have to go the gtk route with all the
versions. A perl5.005 package will be available for when the perl
package becomes 5.006.
The only problem that I have is what will cause those people doing a
partial upgrade to potato that upgrade perl to also install perl5.004?
I really don't think we want a recommends or even a suggests. I guess
we could just tell them what to do when they have problems.
Darren
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