Re: perl installation seems seriously broken
Damn. Everyone following the perl upgrade knew this was
coming. We should have used a staging area. At this point, I would
sugest posting big WARNINGS and simply trying to get new packages
uploaded as quickly as possible. Note that a similar message just hit
devel. Probably several more will be posted independently. I
finished uploading my packages, and people are supposed to post here
if they want NMU's done. Raphael has offered to take the one or two
requests that came in (And he finished most or all of it).
*Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> I noticed that the installation of perl5.005 in the archive is causing
> some serious problems. When I try to select it I immediately have to
> remove lots of other packages (including dpkg-dev!) since the new
> packages don't provide perl anymore.
>
> I think this is a big problem: there should be a way to depend on a
> general perl interpreter and not care if it's perl4, perl5, etc,
> and all perl packages should provide it.
>
> Wichert.
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