Re: base-config: "exec dpkg-reconfigure passwd" requires perl-modules?

[cjwatson@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com> wrote:
>This is on hppa, perl-modules is not part of base.
>
>base-config    1.08
>perl-base      5.6.1-3
[...]
> at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Getopt/Long.pm line 42
>Can't locate auto/Getopt/Long/Configure.al in @INC (@INC contains:
>/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5
>/usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1
>/usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at
>/usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Getopt/Long.pm line 142
>Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 71.
>run-parts: /tmp/base-config.166/10passwd exited with return code 2

perl isn't up to date on hppa (nor hurd-i386, ia64, s390). Getopt::Long
was broken with just -base up to 5.6.1-4 (see #100557).

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]