Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies
- To: Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>
- Cc: Dariush Pietrzak <eyck@forumakad.pl>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: perl 5.00{5,4} dependancies
- From: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:56:04 -0800
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- Mail-followup-to: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, Bernd Eckenfels <lists@lina.inka.de>, Dariush Pietrzak <eyck@forumakad.pl>, debian-perl@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
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Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> First we need to solve the IMHO broken Alternatives Settings of those Perl
> Packages. They messed up my System more than one.
See the BTS, there are patches (#80143). Someone should NMU it, it's absurd
it's been left so broken for so long.
> perl-5.6-base is removing
> all the old perl alternatives and replacing the files of older versions in
> thepostinst. IMHO a policy violation at least.
No it's not, the alternatives system was broken, the maintainer of perl
is free to realize this and correct it.
Well I haven't seen any informed or valid objections to me filing the
80-some bugs; I guess it'll do it tomorrow.
--
see shy jo, who is tempted to ask for policy chapter and verse
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