On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Christoph Maser wrote:

Am Montag, den 12.10.2009, 14:27 +0200 schrieb Tom G. Christensen:
If you want to give a special status to the perl packages, then put
them
in a special repository instead of breaking the packages.

What is broken here is the perl core package of RHEL! So you should
complain at bugzilla.redhat.com, if enough people complain the might
rethink their perl packaging.


well, in this particular case yes and no. Sys::Syslog 0.13 really is part of perl 5.8.8 core:

http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.8/ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm

so it's appropriate for RHEL to put it in their core package, even though it's inconvenient for us.

however, Sys::Syslog appears to have split away from perl core (as of 0.22, perhaps?) since then:

http://search.cpan.org/~saper/Sys-Syslog-0.27/Syslog.pm

we cannot protect people from the fact that RH has a policy of freezing version numbers for the lifetime of a RHEL release, while development marches on without them :(

-steve

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