On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 10:31:25AM -0400, stan wrote: > I've got a "testing" machine that I'm using in production 24/7 (yes, > I've heard the speech on that). > > One of the things that it does is run a perl daemon that uses the perl > hi res time functions. I'm trying to get the machine up to the latest > "testing" packages, but at the moment I have a number of packages that > I can't install because the want to remove libtime-hires-perl . Is > this just a difference in packaging? Is this module included in, let's > say. the new perl-modules package that apt-get wants to install?
Yes (well, perl, not perl-modules). Look at perl's control fields: Package: perl Version: 5.8.0-17 Replaces: [...], libtime-hires-perl Provides: [...], libtime-hires-perl Conflicts: [...], libtime-hires-perl (<< 1.20-1) perl 5.8 was forced into testing with a large hammer because it was holding up too much other development work (perl, python, postgresql, and a few other things all had to be pushed through simultaneously ...). Things will sort themselves out in time, but somewhat under 100 packages per architecture were rendered uninstallable for a while. If you're lucky, you won't need any of those. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]