Re: Perl upgrade : part 2

[Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>]

Le Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 12:39:54PM -0700, Darren O. Benham écrivait:
> Ok, here's the deal...

I'm sorry but I have problems understanding your questions ...

> If there is an "OR" in the depends line dealing with the perl modules, the
> lintian check will fail.  I think I can put in a special case for
> perl|perl5 and perl5|perl.  Will that be enough?

The only thing I'd like is that lintian knows it doesn't need to
complain about a missing perl dependeny if there a dependency on one
of those package :
- perl5
- perl-5.005
- perl-5.004
- perl-5.005-thread (even if it doesn't provide the modules, this package
  depends on perl-5.005 so that we can consider that the module will be
  installed if this package is installed)
- perl5-thread

Now, lintian may accept a line with "perl | <new_depends>" where
new_depends is one of the above package (except the two *-thread) ...

> Do you expect perl-5.005|perl-5.004 or perl5|perl-5.004 or any other
> permutations.  Since "perl" is only supposed to last until release, I'm not
> as concerned about that.  There will probably be a lot of people using
> perl|perl5 until then so I don't mind using that but the rest...?

I don't see the need of perl-5.004 | perl-5.005 since you can depend on
perl5 in order to have the same dependency ...

> Here is an example of the module dependency line.  What "other" packages
> might be in the depends line, specificly, that would satisfy?

perl5-thread and perl-5.005-thread as explained above.

Thanks !
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