Bug#199213: RFP: perlapi-5.6.1 -- PACKAGE perlapi-5.6.1 NOW MISSING IN SARGE
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 08:31:42PM -0700, Mark Hedges wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-06-28
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name : perlapi-5.6.1
> Version : x.y.z
> Upstream Author : Name <somebody@some.org>
> * URL : http://www.some.org/
> * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.)
> Description : PACKAGE perlapi-5.6.1 NOW MISSING IN SARGE
>
> (Include the long description here.)
>
> perlapi-5.6.1 is a package that disappeared from the sarge
> distribution after rollout of perl 5.8.0 and needs to be
> re-created.
I disagree. We simply need to get to a position where the packages still
depending on it in sarge can be updated.
FYI, perlapi-5.6.1 was never a real package; it was a virtual package
provided by perl 5.6.1. Any repackaging of it would be extraordinarily
difficult, as for fairly good reasons Debian's perl packaging strategy
does not support multiple concurrent versions of perl in the archive at
any one time.
> This needs to be a dummy package pointing to the components of perl
> 5.8.0 that satisfy the dependencies,
That would be very wrong; the resulting packages would not work despite
their dependencies apparently being satisfied.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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