"Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes: > So, can I remove this versioned dependency, depend on perl|perl5 and > build with perl5.004 without making the package incompatible with perl > 5.005? > > (The package in question is libpgperl from postgresql.) If there's an .so file in the package---which I would assume there to be, linked against libpgsql or such---then no, 5.004 and 5.004 are not binary compatible. Mike.