"Stephen R. Gore" wrote: > Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > apt-get dist-upgrade' does /not/ upgrade perl from 5.004 to 5.005 > > for the same reason it won't upgrade emacs19 to emacs20. They > > are different packages. The package is perl-5.005_5.005.03 and > > not perl_5.005.03, and so the package `name' is perl-5.005 and > > not simply `perl'. > > > > I don't know if it was supposed to replace perl-5.004 > > automatically. > > ---end quoted text--- > > Yes, I realize they are different packages. But is it possible that > for a script to depend on perl-5.005 features? I don't know perl well > at all, so I have no clue except for the behaviour I mentioned in my > previous post.
Those that do should probably have a `versioned depends' on perl-5.005. But this topic is out of my experience so I'll shut up now. Peter
