Re: Perl troubles

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

Earlier, I wrote 
>>>>> "C" == C M Connelly <c@eskimo.com> writes:

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

perl5 is a virtual package, supposedly provided by both perl5.004 and
perl-5.005.  dpkg doesn't list it properly, however.


C> Oh, yeah, and the most recent version of eperl isn't new enough for
C> wml, either.

I fixed that by downloading the source (apt-get source eperl) and
building a replacement for eperl (dpkg-source -x eperl_2.2.14-0.5.dsc,
cd eperl-2.2.14, dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc).  To get it to build the
deb properly, I had to edit the rules script
(eperl-2.2.14/debian/rules) and comment out a line that was allegedly
a hack to get around a problem with dh_compress (which was working
fine).


So it looks like everything's under control. 

   C.

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