Problem using librrds-perl on debian-testing

["Marcel" <debian-lists@silverpoint.nl>]

Hi all,

I have some problems using Perllib RRDs since the upgrade to Perl 5.8.

When I'm trying to (re)install librrd I receive the following error:

titanium:~# apt-get install librrds-perl
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  librrds-perl: Depends: perlapi-5.6.1 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages

I'm using the latest perl version from the testing release:
titanium:~# dpkg --status perl        
Package: perl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 11004
Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Version: 5.8.0-17
Replaces: perl-5.005 (<< 6), perl-5.6 (<< 6), perl-doc (<< 5.8.0-1),
libdigest-md5-perl, libmime-base64-perl, libtime-hires-perl
Provides: perl5, libdigest-md5-perl, libmime-base64-perl,
libtime-hires-perl
Depends: perl-base (= 5.8.0-17), perl-modules (>= 5.8.0-17), libc6 (>=
2.3.1-1), libdb4.0, libgdbmg1
Suggests: perl-doc, libterm-readline-perl-perl
Conflicts: perl-5.004 (<< 6), perl-5.005 (<< 6), perl-5.6 (<< 6),
perl-doc (<< 5.8.0-1), libdigest-md5-perl (<< 2.20-1),
libmime-base64-perl (<< 2.12-1), libtime-hires-perl (<< 1.20-1)
Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language.
 An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's Swiss
 Army Chainsaw".
 .
 Perl is optimised for scanning arbitrary text files and system
 administration.  It has built-in extended regular expression matching
 and replacement, a data-flow mechanism to improve security with
 setuid scripts and is extensible via modules that can interface to C
 libraries.

titanium:~# dpkg --status perl-base
Package: perl-base
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Installed-Size: 1948
Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
Source: perl
Version: 5.8.0-17
Replaces: perl-5.005-base (<< 6), perl-5.6-base (<< 6), perl (<<
5.8.0-9), perl-modules (<< 5.8.0-9)
Provides: perl5-base, perlapi-5.8.0, data-dumper
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
Suggests: perl
Conflicts: perl-5.004-base (<< 6), perl-5.005-base (<< 6), perl-5.6-base
(<< 6), data-dumper, autoconf2.13 (<< 2.13-45)
Description: The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
 A scripting language with delusions of full language-hood, Perl is used
 in many system scripts and utilities.
 .
 This is a stripped down Perl with only essential libraries.  To make
 full use of Perl, you'll want to install the `perl', `perl-modules' and
 optionally `perl-doc' packages which supplement this one.

Additional information: titanium:~# uname -a
Linux titanium.silverpoint.nl 2.4.20 #4 Wed May 14 00:34:49 CEST 2003
i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

If I manual try to use  librrds-perl 1.0.42-1 from the unstable-debian
version the lib doesn't give the correct output. I've tried installing
librrds-perl on 3 different debian-testing machines, all with the same
error.

Regards,
Marcel.