Re: dist-upgrade and perl
On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 03:13:51PM -0500 , Stephen R. Gore wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005
> > for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They
> > are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and
> > not perl_5.005.03, and so the package `name' is perl-5.005 and
> > not simply `perl'.
> >
> > I don't know if it was supposed to replace perl-5.004
> > automatically.
perl in slink is version 5.004. So replacing it with perl-5.004
is what i should do.
> Yes, I realize they are different packages. But is it possible that
> for a script to depend on perl-5.005 features? I don't know perl well
Yes it is. But that package must depend on perl-5.005 and not on
perl5(virtual).
Petr Cech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
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