Re: Dist-upgrade?
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 04:35:08PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
> On 3/6/2001 16:17, Matt Zimmerman at mdz@debian.org wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 03:14:32PM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
> >
> >> Also, I'm wondering what ppl think about trying to eliminate more version
> >> numbers from package names. A package should depend on Perl5 for example and
> >> not on Perl5.005. It really breaks a lot of things otherwise.
> >
> > Which package should depend on perl5 and not on perl5.005? Be sure you have
> > read http://people.debian.org/~bod/perl-policy/ and understand the reasons for
> > different kinds of Perl dependencies before answering.
>
> My thinking is that package Perl-5.005 provides Perl5 (as does Perl-5.6).
You didn't read the perl-policy before you answered. Go read it.
Julian
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