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


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