Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Why on earth do you want perl-5.005 right now ? Apt would not install it > automatically if you use apt-get upgrade. Because I use dselect and it's really easy to get perl5.005 accidently then. I seem to remember there is already something that requests 5.005.. > for a good reason. That's why all packages that depends on perl needs to > be updated. Including dpkg-dev ! > BTW, should I do an NMU of dpkg for this ? I'm already uploading a dpkg NMU, I had two other fixes in the queue as well. > Wichert, please, let us do the right thing. It's probable that a perl5 > script would not work with perl4. The same problem will (may) appear > again with perl6 and perl5. Wouldn't it make sense to drop the perl-provide at a later stage, when most packages have fixed the dependency? Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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