Re: perl-5.6-base should conflict with all perl packages that use alternatives
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:23:37PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote:
> Basically, perl-5.6-base needs to conflict with all earlier perl-5.004
> and perl-5.005 packages because of exactly this breakage.
Er.. the problem is with the way update-alternatives deals with the
situation, right?
Seems to me we've got several alternatives:
[1] Toss the current perl 5.6. [Having it conflict with 5.004 and 5.005
is the moral equivalent of this, though maybe eventually...]
[2] get perl 5.6 to convince update-alternatives that perl is being
manually controlled by the sysadmin. [This probably won't be sufficient.]
[3] dpkg-divert update-alternatives and provide a wrapper which cleans any
referenes to /usr/bin/perl out of the data set before letting the real
update-alternatives run. Leave this in place until update-alternatives
has been upgraded to support some kind of proper mechanism for this kind
of transition -- at that point, release a perl 5.6 which conflicts with
older versions of update-alternatives.
[4] Decide that debian is broken and that there's nothing we can do
about it.
--
Raul
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