Re: Problems with Perl module package and dh_perl from unstable

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de> wrote:
>Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> writes:
>> Le Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:52:24PM +0100, Stefan Hornburg écrivait:
>> > The problem is that dh_perl bails out. dh_perl seems to call
>> > dpkg -p perl, but the package perl doesn't exists. 
>> 
>> Your sid chroot is not up to date then. dist-upgrade your chroot. It will
>> install perl. 
>
>Hm,
>dpkg -l perl 
>says that perl version 5.6.0-19 is installed.
>
>dpkg -p perl
>says that
>Package `perl' is not available.

Then you did 'apt-get update', which doesn't update dpkg's available
file - configure dselect with the apt access method and use 'dselect
update' instead.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]