*- On 28 Dec, William Burrow wrote about "Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??" > I upgraded to potato, hoping to get access to all the fine stuff in the > distro, but find I am stuck with Perl 5.004. Packages I want to install > want 5.005. I want Perl 5.005. Why is it that apt left 5.004 behind? > Is the reason logged somewhere? Is there something I missed that might > do the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004? > Why would dist-upgrade miss this? > > Thanks for info! >
Perl 5.005 and Perl 5.004 are significantly different in their compatibility that it was decided to make two independent packages of the two that can coexist on the system. You can install the perl-5.005 package and dselect should pull in the other needed packages. After that is installed try removing the perl-5.004 packages and see if anything depends on them. They both provide perl5-base so perl-5.005 should satisfy the needs of packages that perl-5.004 was satisfying. I no longer have any perl-5.004 packages on my potato system and don't have any problems. Search the debian-perl, debian-devel and debian-policy archives from earlier this year(May onward) for all the discussion. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
