Giuseppe Ghibò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Shouldn't there be a preventive rebuild of everything depending > > > on perl? > > yes: do not write stuping programs that rely on specific versions > > of perl. > > since there're still maintream authors that do this, we've to > > patch such programs to rely on /usr/bin/perl and not > > /usr/bin/perl-<version> > > Why? How one program can be sure for instance that /usr/bin/perl is > compatible with old version (for instance imaging /usr/bin/perl is > perl 6.0 and program was only tested against perl 5.8.1)?
let's be serious: main upstream authors won't look at perl changes, distro maintainers do quite more work in that area. especially, latex2html predate the whole perl-5.8.x and perl-5.8.2 is only a bugfix release for 5.8.1 that main mainstream authors won't work with until their prefered distro get updated ... i even remember that in the old days (around 1995) they hardcoded /usr/local/bin/perl stuff in some latex2html scripts. this is just a badly packaged (at mainstream level) program.
