Re: problems with the perl5 packages
On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 05:24:32PM +0000, Dale Scheetz was heard to say:
> Well, in recovering my system, it became necessary to install dpkg-dev,
> who's current version requires perl5. I chose to upgrade to perl-5.005,
> but while installing perl-5.005-base I was forced to use
> --auto-deconfigure on several packages that depended upon perl. When the
> smoke cleared, after installing the complete perl-5.005 package, I could
> not re-configure either libnet-perl, or mirror, both of which depend upon
> perl.
Maybe you're using old versions of those packages?
bluegreen:~> dlocate -s libnet-perl
Package: libnet-perl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: base
Installed-Size: 231
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@debian.org>
Version: 1.0606-3
Replaces: libnet
Provides: libnet
Depends: perl5, perl-5.005 | data-dumper
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.
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bluegreen:~> apt-cache show mirror
Package: mirror
Version: 2.9-8
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Depends: perl5, netbase, patch
> After looking over things, both perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 replace perl and
> provide perl5, but neither of them provide perl!
>
> Shouldn't perl-5.005 provide perl? Or should mirror depend upon perl5? If
> both of these packages have the correct dependencies, where do I get a
> version of perl that provides perl, that will install beside perl-5.005?
I'm not certain, but I think perhaps the intent was that packages which
weren't updated to comply with the new Perl policy would be broken outright
instead of possibly failing with no warning due to incompatibilities in 5.005.
Daniel
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