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Re: [ITP] perl-5.8.8


Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
On Jul 2 19:06, Reini Urban wrote:
Corinna Vinschen schrieb:
- Your package pollutes the /usr/bin directory with two versions of
 *almost* every tool in the perl package, foo, foo5.8.8, bar, bar5.8.8,
 etc.  The former 5.8.7 package only created a perl5.8.8 parallel to
 the perl exe, but all other binaries were only available without
 versioning, same as in the Linux distros I have my hands on, btw.
This is intended and current practice for perl developers with a lot of different perl versions around to test their libraries against.

Erm... that's ok for *your* test and build machines, but this is a stable release you're planning, not a test version.

I'm planning to release the test version also. See the thread under [perl-5.9.5]. The package is ready without any testsuite failure, it's just not yet released upstream and we are still finding silly bugs.


But if the additional 5.8.8 script suffix is a problem I can pull them out. For me it made things clearer.
--
Reini Urban



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