Perl mysteries.

[Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>]

On Mon, 15 May 2000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 08:20:32AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > bash-2.04$ dpkg -l perl*
> > ii  perl-5.004     5.004.05-6     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
> >
> > ii  perl-5.004-sui 5.004.05-6     Runs setuid Perl scripts.
> > ii  perl-5.005     5.005.03-7.1   Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
> > un  perl-5.005-sui <none>         (no description available)
> > [...]
> 
> So your /usr/bin/perl is perl-5.005, I presume, but you only have
> perl-5.004-suid installed.  You should find it works once you have
> installed perl-5.005-suid.  Unfortunately, there's no easy way in the
> Suggests: line to tell people to install the right version of
> perl5-suid :-(

Gosh! Why do we do perl the screwed up way?