Perl troubles

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

Hi, folks,

I'm trying to sort out some problems on my machine (PowerCenter 132,
running potato) in terms of package dependencies.  The big issue, of
course, is Perl.

What is the correct name for the current Perl package, perl or perl5?

Should packages that depend on perl be fixed so that they depend on
perl5, or vice versa?

My specific problems revolve around getting WML installed: wml depends
on perl5 and eperl; eperl depends on perl; perl and perl5 conflict.
Oh, yeah, and the most recent version of eperl isn't new enough for
wml, either.

(sgml-data and weblint also depend on perl.)

It looks like we currently have the following Perl packages installed
(dpkg -l 'perl*' | grep '^ii'):

ii  perl-5.004      5.004.05-1     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
ii  perl-5.004-base 5.004.05-1     The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
ii  perl-5.004-doc  5.004.05-3     Man pages and pod docs for Perl
ii  perl-5.005      5.005.03-1     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
ii  perl-base       5.004.05-1     Fake package assuring that one of the -base 
ii  perl-tk         800.014-1.1    Perl module providing the Tk graphics librar

Thanks,

   C.

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