Re: Perl 5.005 package
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Joey Hess, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
>> Yes, it will breaks lots of things. Anything that has any XS components
>> needs to be recompiled. They should depend on the package perl5.005.
>> This will actually be a virtual package so that versioned dependencies
>> will still work with (perl >= 5.005.04). This dependency will still
>> work when perl5.006 comes out. This was discussed I think back in
>> December but the refresh is good.
>
>I think you're missing Richard's point. What happens when some user upgrades
>from 2.1 to potato, once potato is released? If perl is upgraded first, it's
Potato won't be released with the modules broken. The dependencies that
I mentioned will also enable this breakage not to happen again.
So, is there some way for me to get something like the above added to
the debian policy manual once we've shown that it works? I don't have
the time to read debian-policy though.
>(Note that breakage aside, I've ben waiting for perl 5.005 forever and am
>going to be very happy to see it uploaded. Threads!!)
Well, threading is still an experimental feature and will be released
with the version-specific Perl of 5.005.56 next week. Threading isn't
available in the Perl 5.005.x {x: x <= 50}.
Darren
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