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• I just use testing (Score:2)

  by jdavidb (1361)

  Despite the name, testing is generally quite stable. You might not want to run a critical piece of infrastructure on it, but it should be good enough for anything MySQL is good enough for. :P ;)

  But I don't manage Perl modules from the OS. I leave the system Perl alone and manage my own in another directory.

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by nicholasrperez (7484)

    Here here to this suggestion. I've been bitten one too many times mixing cpan and apt-get usage. It is always better to let the OS do what it wants with its perl and manage a completely separate build and set of paths, etc of perl.
• Not updated (Score:1)

  by Arador (8415)

  It seems that http://debian.pkgs.cpan.org/ [cpan.org] isn't being updated. That's a shame, because it is a good idea.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jozef (8299)

    Did you try to send email to Jos [cpan.org]? May be it's not updated because he sees not enough community interest?
• Installing Padre from Untsable (Score:2)

  by gabor (1626)

  Nice

  Does that mean one could install Padre from Unstable even on systems running testing or stable ?

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jozef (8299)

    Well yes and no. In principle yes, currently no, as `sudo apt-get install -t unstable padre` fails atm.:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
padre: Depends: libfile-path-perl (>= 2.07) but it is not installable


    File::Path is part of "perl" package and should not be in dependecies. The required (unstable?) Perl version should be listed.