On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:39:00PM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > Anyway, why keep an empty package on all those architecture. > Why not let perl-base provide libperl5.8 and kill libperl5.8 on those > architectures. > Or have libperl5.8 always contain the actual shared library and have > perl-base depend on libperl5.8 (that would have to be essntial: yes) on > those architectures?
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