Le Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait: > What am I supposed to do? I could make debconf depend on perl-5.005, but it > really works with any version of perl 5. Also, if only perl-5.004-base, > perl-5.005, and perl-5.005-base were installed, and the alternatives pointed > /usr/bin/perl to perl 5.004, then it would still fail! I realize that would > require manual intervention to change the alternattives priorities, but it > still worries me.
Yes this is a problem. How can we force perl-5.005 by default instead of perl-5.004 ... we need to add a dependency somewhere. BTW, Darren, what happened to perl-base ? It doesn't depend on perl5-base anymore ... perl-base should depend on perl-5.005-base | perl5-base in order to install perl-5.005-base by default. And perl-5.005-base will suggest perl-5.005 but this is not enough to be sure that a perl5 dependency will give us a complete perl environment. Maybe we should put the alternatives for /usr/bin/perl in perl-5.00X and simply create a link in perl-5.00X-base if one doesn't exist ... this way /usr/bin/perl would always exist and always point to the more complete perl installation (perl-5.00X and perl-5.00X-base instead of -base only). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/ <pub> CD Debian : http://tux.u-strasbg.fr/~raphael/debian/#cd </pub>
