On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:27:00PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > I have a package (debconf) that uses lib.pm. This is in perl-5.00[54]. It > depends on perl5. I just installed a fresh unstable system, using the > defaults. perl-5.004-base and perl-5.004 were installed, as was > perl-5.005-base. perl-5.005 itself was not installed.
Huh? perl-5.005 is priority: important, and it doesn't seem to conflict with anything else. How come it didn't get installed? My first suspicion was that having the dummy `perl' package still around might've been causing problems, but I can't see how it could be. > perl -v says perl > 5.005 is being used as the "perl" command. When debconf was installed, > nothing in the dependancies pulled in perl-5.005. So the program fails. Yick. Perhaps the alternative priorities could be arranged differently? Something like perl-5.004-base with a priority of 5004 perl-5.005-base with a priority of 5005 perl-5.004 with a priority of 15004 perl-5.005 with a priority of 15005 ? Can this even be done, though? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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