Re: New perl packages

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>]

>>>>> "bod" == Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> writes:
    bod> I've re-applied the patch.

More breakage. Try

        perl -e 'use lib "/usr/lib/perl5"; use IO::Seekable;'

and watch the fun.  I found this trying to use sgmt2html from the
sgml-tools package.

My personal suggestion would be to change INSTALLPRIVLIB to
/usr/share/perl/5.005 and INSTALLARCHLIB to /usr/lib/perl/5.005 and
explicitly add /usr/lib/perl5 using APPLLIB in perl-5.005

In addition, the current perl-5.005 package is also broken if you
intended to allow it to continue to access packages under
/usr/lib/perl5.  Install libapache-asp-perl and then try this

        perl-5.005 -MApache::ASP -e 1

If you don't mean for that to work then all the more reason to move
INSTALLPRIVLIB and INSTALLARCHLIB as I suggest.  Of course, if you
don't mean that to work, why bother with a non-dummy perl-5.005
package at all? :)

rabbit% dpkg -l perl\*|grep ^ii                
ii  perl           5.6.0-11       Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
ii  perl-5.005     5.005.03-9     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
ii  perl-5.6       5.6.0-11       Transitional package.
ii  perl-5.6-base  5.6.0-11       Transitional package.

-- 
Stephen

"And what do we burn apart from witches?"... "More witches!"