Re: argh - no perl...

[Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:04:49PM -0500 , xsdg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:29:31AM +0100, Petr Cech wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:17:16AM +0100 , Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >  I read about this problem before, but have been bitten tomorrow by it
> > >  myself. After upgrading to current woody I'm stuck in the middle of
> > >  the upgrade process without /usr/bin/perl.
> > 
> > >  But I think both problems are not related to each other. The big
> > >  question is how to solve the problem of the missing /usr/bin/perl "correctly"?
> > 
> > ln -s /usr/bin/perl-5.6 /usr/bin/perl
> Why do people keep saying this?!  Doesn't debian come with update-alternatives for a reason?

or dpkg --configure perl-5.6-base

look at archives of debian-perl. There won't be an "alternative" perl anymore.
People, read the changelogs please

perl-5.6 (5.6.0-5) unstable; urgency=low

  * Remove all alternatives related to the Perl packages.
    (closes: #76432, #76524, #77247, #77303, #77619)

and

perl-5.6 (5.6.0-3) unstable; urgency=high

  * Note that I'll release the no-alternatives version of all three Perl
    packages 2 days after this version is accepted so as to give it time
    to hit the mirrors.


				Petr Cech
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