reassign 495394 postgresql-plperl-8.1 thanks On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Peter Niebling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It should be possible to have different perl versions installed in parallel. > This concerns also perl-base and perl-modules.
This is somewhat more complicated than you might expect, given that it would require not only multiple versions of the Perl package set, but also of all binary modules and a number of pure Perl modules. > Actually, postgresql-plperl-8.1 is going to be removed when upgrading perl to > 5.10. > This MUST NOT happen. > > The reason: > libperl5.8 depends on perl-base (= 5.8.8-12) > libperl5.10 depends on perl-base (= 5.10.0-13) > > The solution: > perl, perl-base and perl-modules (maybe others) should have versioned names > and corresponding metapackages. > The dependencies in other packages have to reflect the changes as well. Actually, the solution is that postgresql-plperl-8.1 needs to be re-built for 5.10. > There are only a few files under /usr/bin which have to wrappers to > alternatives. Some years ago there were multiple Perl packages, with /usr/bin/perl managed by update-alternatives. There were a number of problems with this situation, not least of which was that using update-alternatives, which requires /usr/bin/perl to operate, to manage that same pathname caused some entertaining failures during upgrades. Reassigning to postgresql-plperl-8.1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
