Re: Question for you people ...

[John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>]

*Justin Wheeler wrote:
> As I can see packages are being updated like crazy, and being fixed up
> for the release of the perl 5.005 package into mainstream; I am
> wondering.  I have written my own software which I will be packaging in
> deb format.  It also depends on perl.  So what should I be putting in
> for dependecies to work with both the old AND new Perl packages?

  If your package has no perl extensions (no dynamically loadable
object files), but just uses perl scripts, then make the package
depend on 'perl5' and it will work with old and new packages.


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