On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:57:19PM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:47:15PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > But clearly if you're just reporting this strangeness now, months after the > > package was uploaded, the package isn't actually unusable. So why should > > this be grave? > OK, you may be right, but this certainly is strange! Sure, agreed; it's certainly a bug, it just doesn't seem to break anything. > > BTW, the packages in sarge shipped the same way, with no ill effects... > Really? I would have thought that such important packages would have > been looked at more closely, and that such a strangeness would have been > spotted before. > But then why have a libperl5.8 package at all? I would guess either a) older packages depended on it so it's provided for transition, or b) to keep the library out of the Essential package to provide a smaller base system. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
