Re: perl version depends
Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 01:59:40AM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait:
> > Thus I believe it would need to use (>= 5.005-0)
>
> (>= 5.005) should work too, no ?
Check out what dpkg thinks about it:
finlandia!joey(tty5):/tmp> dpkg --compare-versions 5.005 lt 5.005-1; echo $?
0
So, yes, it's also ok.
> > (I thought that debian-devel had reached a consensous that it's not
> > a good idea to change the perl version less than 14 days before
> > the code freeze.)
>
> I don't know what debian-devel reached, but in fact it seems to me that just
> a few people are interested by perl. :-)
Yes, but more people are interested in a broken perl subsystem.
> John Lapeyre has made a good summary of solutions available. In fact
> Perl5.005 is in unstable and some packages (like eperl) have already
> been updated and uploaded for using perl5.005.
Before this screwup I didn't realize that most but not all modules are
placed in /usr/lib/perl5/$version/$arch-linux/$dir while plain
/usr/lib/per5 would be sufficient, too. We should have made it
policy that modules have to omit the versioned directory where it is
possible.
Regards,
Joey
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