Re: Perl 5.005 package

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> Zephaniah E. Hull, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >New package set, perl5.005, Provides: perl, Conflicts: perl (<< 5.
> >004.04-7) (or some such), uses versioned directorys, provides binary
> >perl5.005, uses alternatives for who gets the 'perl' binary.
> 
> Yes, we've discussed this before.  I even mentioned in my e-mail earlier 
> today why this is a problem.  Since dpkg has problems with both
> versioned provides and pre-depends with provides, we can't use provides
> Perl.  This problem goes away if dpkg gets fixed.  I'm not basing my
> hopes on this though.

You don't need versioned provides or a empty perl package. Just make a
perl5.005 that cliflicts with the current perl.

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