On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:50:04PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > This package conflicts wiht perl-base. It ships an (empty) directory > /usr/lib/perl/5.8, which violates the Perl Policy. /usr/lib/perl/5.8 > is already installed by perl-base as a symlink to /usr/lib/perl/5.8.4. > > A quickfix is at > > > http://patches.ubuntu.com/patches/liblockfile-simple-perl.perl-base-conflict.diff
Thanks. > Just as a side note, this package is badly undermaintained. It has > lots of lintian warnings (and an error which points out this bug, > btw), lots of cruft in debian/, and an ancient Packaging Policy. You're right. I'm going to put this up for adoption. I had thought I already did, actually, but I guess that didn't happen somehow. (I do little Perl coding anymore.) -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]