Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Mark Eichin
> this since he asked for it a while back. The upgrade to libc6 for perl > can't happen until there is a libgdbm compatible with it though since I > refuse to break everyone's dbm interfaces. I'll also be able to release Great - as soon as I get some consensus on package naming, I'll try to put

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Scott Ellis, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >As the official version of perl 5.004 is finally out (I must admit I >haven't installed the debian package yet, but I run webservers with lots >of perl CGI and can't afford to break them), I have a few q

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
"Scott K. Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My main concern is that they neither bunch up on the dpkg select screen, > nor is it easy to search for perl modules in dselect (I'd like to be able > to find all the perl modules by searching on perl). BTW, I maintain alias and www-search (and libwww

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On 19 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the > misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue > ;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the > package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm). No real ob

Re: Perl 5.004, perl modules, and binary compatibility

1997-05-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Well, with 5.004, CGI-modules is obsolete, and so the misnaming of the CGI modules package is a solved issue ;-). (Unless. of course, there is a hew-and-cry about removing the package, I'd suggest removing CGI-modules from hamm). As for the description issue, even the one l