Re: Upgrading Slink -> Potato

[John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>]

*Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 10:12:53PM +0100, Martin Schulze écrivait:
> > Data/Dumper.pm is in perl-5.005-base which doesn't get installed for
> > some reason.
> > 
> > tasha:~/sik# dpkg -l perl-5.005-base
> > No packages found matching perl-5.005-base.
> > 
> > If you install it, you're going to lose perl.
> 
> Yes that's wanted. This should force you to update all your modules
> compiled for perl-5.004 (which depended on perl) which have been recompiled
> for perl-5.005 and which now depends on perl-5.005.
> 
> Why it doesn't get installed with apt-get dist-upgrade is something I
> don't uderstand. There are many packages that depend on perl-5.005 and
> you don't have anyone ?
> 
> At least, I think that a debconf dependency needs to be adjusted. I don't
> know why and how, but the data-dumper package that used to contain the
> Data::Dumper perl module for perl-5.004 is no more here. And debconf needs
> Data::Dumper. So it should depend on perl-5.005 instead of perl5.
> 
> If the data-dumper package shows up again and then it should depend 
> on :
> perl5, perl-5.005 | data-dumper
> 
> This way we can be sure that we have (perl-5.004 and data-dumper) or
> perl-5.005. This IS release critical. Thanks both Joey, the first for
> reporting the problem and the second for correcting the debconf
> dependencies. :-)
   I'm confused. You are saying that Joey H. has already fixed the 
dependency in debconf ?
   I got a similar problem.  debconf failed to install during
dist-upgrade.  I don't quite  remember the details (sorry).
I think apt or dpkg said it refused to remove the essential
package, perl.  I installed perl-5.005 by hand and then the
dist-upgrade went along fine.



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