Re: Testers wanted for lang/perl5 update to version 5.12.1

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>]

2010/5/31 Stoned Elipot <stoned.elipot%gmail.com@localhost>:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Jens Rehsack 
> <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> version 0.82 is distributed with Perl5 5.12. Maybe it's a good idea to
>> add CONFLICTS for all core-packages like
>> CONFLICTS+= p5-version<0.82
>> CONFLICTS+= p5-Tie-File<=0.97beta2
>> ...
>>
>> This could be done with a script, probably ...
>
> =>
> Why not. But what would that really buy us ?

It would reduce surprises like "after I updated p5-version to ...". In
fact, devel/p5-Tie-File doesn't work with
perl >= 5.9.3, and it's usually not a good idea to allow users have
depreciated versions of any modules
installed. This would cause bugs where are none.

Jens