Hello all, this message is primarily adressed at the few TUs who maintain perl packages in community (namely Sergej, Allan and bardo), but should also be read by everyone else contributing perl packages to AUR as well. perl 5.10.0 – currently in testing – will soon be moved to core. Since this release implements a new "Perl Policy", there are some important changes in packaging that should be noted. Also, all packages that provide compiled libraries or that embed their own perl engine must be recompiled. Even better is to update ALL perl packages according to the new path scheme. See http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/PKGBUILD-perl.proto for the new and simpler way to package perl stuff. Since I had to do the job for my packages anyway, it was equally easy for me to update all PKGBUILDs at once. So Sergej, Allan and bardo can grab their new PKGBUILDs from http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/sergej.zip http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/allan.zip http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/bardo.zip Note that these contain only the packages in lib. There are a few more that I have not touched: devel/svk devel/perl6-pugs games/hearse multimedia/freewrl multimedia/xmltv network/pppusage These are left as an exercise to their respective maintainers ;) Be sure to backup your old PKGBUILDs and to check carefully those I made (especially the depends array). Kevin – the perl maintainer – is going to notify us when he moves perl from testing to core. Then we should get busy building the packages and uploading them to the repo :) Have fun, Firmicus