-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Zephaniah E. Hull, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >Rename perl to perl5.005, version 02-2 or such.. >Then use the alternatives setup to decide which perl gets run when you >try to use just 'perl'..
That's possible but I'm not sure it's a good idea. It seems a hard thing to get right. I notice that x?emacs and java constantly have problems with their alternatives. Also, would perl-base be an alternative? I do plan on releasing versioned packages but those would be for specific needs and not the general case. There's the idea from Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> where a Perl can put Provides: perl5.005 in the control file. Hopefully it's okay to discuss this here even though it's a policy sort of discussion. I don't have time to read debian-policy. (What is the traffic there like?) Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI/Pilot programmer/tutor @ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNh9ANY4wrq++1Ls5AQEvCwP/SEViUd8G6+W6C252uQMdQlAB4H6OHnvX UWaqDhyMwSnMNRN4nZ+PRt/v24ISuU76s8MiMLrF18Cd2CVV9vZqJjuOIEMakWir FmnEjgjZGop6RZ8hzv1StEHPAhnXBmoflLOjoBHLksHVoxEbCH5+VT8QN11fFXKe k2Jzhvn23ao= =H8vx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
