On Dec 5, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote > I was going to change perl to perl5 think weekend and just provide the > virtual package perl. This would close a bug filed by Brian White who > is worried about Perl6. While I was thinking about this during builds
I think you'd better make that perl5.004, because breakage could just as well occur with 5.005 or 5.006, not just perl6. With 5.005 we'll need a threaded and non-threaded version as well. Fun. But are you trying to protect debian perl based packages or user written perl programs? The user should already know about possible perl versions and use #!/usr/bin/perl5.004 where necessary. Debian can't protect user written code from breaking. Preventing other debian packages from breaking can be done without changing the package name. -- Bart Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] At Lunalabs, where the Lunatech Research http://www.lunatech.com/ future is made today.. Partner of The Perl Institute http://www.perl.org/ Linux http://www.li.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
