Debian bug report logs - #1024
wu-ftpd

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Subject: Re:  Bug#1024: wu-ftpd

> I didn't realize perl was on the base disks. What is the perl devel
> package for then? Base disks just contain a minimal install or something?

The perl package in devel has been pre-installed on the base disks. You don't
need the package unless you are upgrading an older base.

> Excuse my ignorance of perl, i've never written anything in it before.

Learn Python instead (someone will probably hand me my head for that).

	Bruce
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Subject: Re: Bug#1024: wu-ftpd
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> 
> Perl is part of the base system. What was he installing on?

A PC. I don't follow your question :) I didn't get a very decent report
from him I was hoping he'd report this himself. He just said that when
he tried installing wu-ftpd it failed trying to find some file with a
perl extension. Then he installed the perl package and installed
wu-ftpd again and it was okay.

I didn't realize perl was on the base disks. What is the perl devel
package for then? Base disks just contain a minimal install or something?
Excuse my ignorance of perl, i've never written anything in it before.

Andrew

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Subject: Re:  Bug#1024: wu-ftpd

Perl is part of the base system. What was he installing on?

	Bruce
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Package: wu-ftpd
Version: 2.4-9

This is passed on to me by a friend.

He said he tried installing the wu-ftpd package but it failed on
some perl header file. So he installed perl and then tried again
and it worked. Maybe wu-ftpd should have a dependency on perl?

Andrew

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Andrew Howell				               andrew@it.com.au 
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