Re: Perl policy for managing modules ?
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Zephaniah E. Hull, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>Rename perl to perl5.005, version 02-2 or such..
>Then use the alternatives setup to decide which perl gets run when you
>try to use just 'perl'..
That's possible but I'm not sure it's a good idea. It seems a hard
thing to get right. I notice that x?emacs and java constantly have
problems with their alternatives. Also, would perl-base be an
alternative?
I do plan on releasing versioned packages but those would be for specific
needs and not the general case.
There's the idea from Carey Evans <c.evans@clear.net.nz> where a Perl
can put Provides: perl5.005 in the control file.
Hopefully it's okay to discuss this here even though it's a policy sort
of discussion. I don't have time to read debian-policy. (What is the
traffic there like?)
Darren
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