Updating perl-base 5.004 -> 5.005

[Paolo Pumilia <xpol@yahoo.com>]

I am in trouble updating perl 5.004 -> 5.005 in
debian/potato.
Currently perl 5.004 is installed together with _fake_
perl and perl-base,
needed to allow upgrading to 5.005:

ii  perl            5.004.05-2     Fake package used
for a smooth upgrade
ii  perl-5.004      5.004.05-3     Larry Wall's
Practical Extracting and Report
ii  perl-5.004-base 5.004.05-3     The Pathologically
Eclectic Rubbish Lister
ii  perl-5.004-doc  5.004.05-3     Man pages and pod
docs for Perl
ii  perl-base       5.004.05-1     Fake package
assuring that one of the -base 
iU  perl-5.005      5.005.03-4     Larry Wall's
Practical Extracting and Report

perl-base-2.005 installation fails, apparently due to
conflict with just 
the _fake_ perl package:

%% dpkg -i  perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb   
> dpkg: regarding perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb
containing perl-5.005-base:
>  perl-5.005-base conflicts with perl
>   perl (version 5.004.05-2) is installed.
> dpkg: error processing
perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb (--install):
>  conflicting packages - not installing
perl-5.005-base
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.deb

Should i safely use the --force option in that case?

thank you for your help

Pol 


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