On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:22:02AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: [...] > It is left like this until perl is configured and the postinst script > takes care of moving perl-5.005.dist to perl-5.005.
> > Why does perl need to do all this hardlink magic and also leave us with a > binary that dpkg knows nothing about?! You found second problem with perl (perl violates Debian Policy?). Main problem is - before we have perl configured we don't have binary of /usr/bin/perl: Checking available versions of perl, updating links in /etc/alternatives ... (You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.) Last package providing perl (/usr/bin/perl) removed, deleting it. and dpkg system isn't usable (in this case failed libc6 postinst). Because today we need both 5.004 and 5.005 (?) I think it's time to make 5.005 mandatory and 5.005 should have real /usr/bin/perl. Mirek PS I was happy because my upgrade has another order (libc6 before perl - why?) and failed just after unpacking perl (it was caused by rpm). When I restarted upgrade (after I removed rpm) apt-get first configured perl.
