perl-5.6.0 ready for test! (IMPORTANT READ THIS MESSAGE ON MAINTAINER STATUS!)

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Tue Aug 22 05:08:00 GMT 2000


--- Michael Ring <Michael.Ring@t-mobil.de> wrote:
> perl-5.6.0 is perl period ;-)
> 
-8<-
> 
> PACKAGING STATUS:
> 
> When tested this package should go nowhere (or perhaps contrib) version 5.6.1
> should go to contrib
> 

IMHO, automake, autoconf, libtool and perl should be a part of the base package
and therefore should go to the latest directory and not to the contrib
directory.  Perl is required by the other three and automake, autoconf and
libtool [are|have] becom[ing|e] a de facto standard.

Cheers,

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