Re: problems with the perl5 packages

[Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>]

"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:

Dale> understanding that this was, in fact, the reason for
Dale> constructing the package names so that they could both be
Dale> installed at the same time, yet they both claim to be perl5!

Well, "perl5" enough for most purposes.  The packages that use
databases or new/incompatible features are the ones that depend
specifically on perl-5.005.

In potato theres a dh_perl utility that studies what features are
being used, and generates a correct ${perl:Depends} for the control
file.

		netgod




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