Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Le Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 01:59:40AM +0200, Martin Schulze écrivait: > > Thus I believe it would need to use (>= 5.005-0) > > (>= 5.005) should work too, no ?
Check out what dpkg thinks about it: finlandia!joey(tty5):/tmp> dpkg --compare-versions 5.005 lt 5.005-1; echo $? 0 So, yes, it's also ok. > > (I thought that debian-devel had reached a consensous that it's not > > a good idea to change the perl version less than 14 days before > > the code freeze.) > > I don't know what debian-devel reached, but in fact it seems to me that just > a few people are interested by perl. :-) Yes, but more people are interested in a broken perl subsystem. > John Lapeyre has made a good summary of solutions available. In fact > Perl5.005 is in unstable and some packages (like eperl) have already > been updated and uploaded for using perl5.005. Before this screwup I didn't realize that most but not all modules are placed in /usr/lib/perl5/$version/$arch-linux/$dir while plain /usr/lib/per5 would be sufficient, too. We should have made it policy that modules have to omit the versioned directory where it is possible. Regards, Joey -- The only stupid question is the unasked one.