Re: Dist-upgrade?

["Carl B. Constantine" <carl@os-s.com>]

On 3/6/2001 16:17, Matt Zimmerman at mdz@debian.org wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:14:32PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
> 
>> Also, I'm wondering what ppl think about trying to eliminate more version
>> numbers from package names. A package should depend on Perl5 for example and
>> not on Perl5.005. It really breaks a lot of things otherwise.
> 
> Which package should depend on perl5 and not on perl5.005?  Be sure you have
> read http://people.debian.org/~bod/perl-policy/ and understand the reasons for
> different kinds of Perl dependencies before answering.

My thinking is that package Perl-5.005 provides Perl5 (as does Perl-5.6).
Dependant packages should only really depend on Perl5 and the package should
be named Perl5 as opposed to containing an entire version string in the
package name. The version should be in the version field. Having a Package
depend on Perl-5.005 instead of just Perl5 causes problems during upgrades
and may remove software that will still work with Perl 5.6 but because the
dependency is Perl-5.005 it gets hosed.

It reduces conflicts and problems this way.

Taking a look at my system I see that I have Perl-5.005 and Perl-5.6
installed but I still don't know if I should do another dist-upgrade.

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