RE: why do we provide perl-5.004 anymore?
Perhaps 5.004 is still around for compatibility... nothing in debian may
depend on .004, but admins have this habit of writing their own scripts ;-)
I don't know why the upgrade would go to 5.004 as opposed to 5.005 (maybe
theres a good reason..)... but I believe we should leave .004 in there for
those that need to keep it around.. (of course, I haven't looked at the
complete list of changes, so I may be wrong and there may not be any serious
issues ... )
One example, which is from the perl-5.005-base pre-inst script:
"This version of Perl is using the newer Berkeley DB 2 files.
They are incompatible with the Berkeley DB 1.85 files that
you have (probably) been using.
Please use perl-5.004 to work with these db's until you can
convert them over.
You can use Perl-5.004 to dump these databases and reload
them with Perl-5.005.
Or you can use db_dump185(1) and db_load(1) utilities thatcome with the
libc6 package."
-Terry
-----Original Message-----
From: ressu@uusikaupunki.fi [mailto:ressu@uusikaupunki.fi]
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2000 1:47 PM
To: Debian Developement Mailinglist
Subject: why do we provide perl-5.004 anymore?
a minute ago there was some discussion about apt-get dist-upgrade not
upgrading to perl-5.005 but to 5.004
i started looking.. and found out that there are no packages that depend on
it..
i'm using an slink/potato hybrid.. but i think that it's still the same
answer in potato.
do we really need this in potato?
if not.. we should either make 5.005 provide this and remove it. or find
some other way to make it convinient to upgrade.
--
get a life, get the second one free...
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