On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> I have a package (debconf) that uses lib.pm. This is in perl-5.00[54]. It
> depends on perl5. I just installed a fresh unstable system, using the
> defaults. perl-5.004-base and perl-5.004 were installed, as was
> perl-5.005-base. perl-5.005 itself was not installed.
Huh? perl-5.005 is priority: important, and it doesn't seem to conflict
with anything else. How come it didn't get installed?
My first suspicion was that having the dummy `perl' package still around
might've been causing problems, but I can't see how it could be.
> perl -v says perl
> 5.005 is being used as the "perl" command. When debconf was installed,
> nothing in the dependancies pulled in perl-5.005. So the program fails.
Yick. Perhaps the alternative priorities could be arranged differently?
Something like
perl-5.004-base with a priority of 5004
perl-5.005-base with a priority of 5005
perl-5.004 with a priority of 15004
perl-5.005 with a priority of 15005
? Can this even be done, though?
Cheers,
aj
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