Re: Broken dependencies in current state of perl upgrade
"Darren O. Benham" wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:33:36PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
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>> Unfortunately, I have to, because I maintain a perl-dependent package.
>> Hence my grief...
>
>Not unless you have a per-5.005 dependent package. You package(s) can
>safely depend on perl|perl5 and/or you should be able to safely "apt-get
>install perl"... atleast I was able to last week..
What makes a package depend on a particular version of perl? I have
adopted the changes made by Raphael Hertzog in his NMU. That put the
dependency ${perl:Depends} in the control file, which translates to a
versioned dependency on perl-5.005. As far as I know, there's nothing in
the package itself to require a particular version of perl, but I don't
understand the ramifications of this change.
So, can I remove this versioned dependency, depend on perl|perl5 and
build with perl5.004 without making the package incompatible with perl
5.005?
(The package in question is libpgperl from postgresql.)
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