Re: Versioned provides ... a necessity !
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 02:08:57PM -0800, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > BTW, does anyone know when these will be moved into unstable, and how badly
> > do they currently break a system?
>
> The current .deb does use the versioned directories and breaks all perl
> modules packages since perl scripts cannot find them. This does include
> DebianNet.pm and all Debian specific modules installed under
> /usr/lib/perl5.
>
> However Darren said to me, that he may add /usr/lib/perl5 to @INC so
> that many scripts do not break.
It would go against upstream policy, though, and that upstream policy is
there for a reason (albeit one I don't personally understand).
Jules
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