As libperl5.* packages currently depend on an exact version of perl-base, coinstallation of multiple library versions is impossible. Transitions are not only a pain for developers, but users must upgrade all Perl extensions and embedding applications at the same time as the perl package. Why don't all the Perl package names include the ABI version, leaving perl as a metapackage? With linux-tools-* packages, this is particularly problematic as the older packages will never be rebuilt for the new Perl version. My inclination is to 'fix' this by removing Perl integration from perf. Please let us know whether it will be possible to fix this properly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
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