Re: Updating perl-base 5.004 -> 5.005

["Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net>]

You wrote:
> 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:

Try going into dselect, then select perl-5.005-base, perl-5.005,
perl-5.005-doc, and perl-base.  This should force you get all of the
perl-5.004 packages removed while upgrading to perl-5.005. The problem
is you need to select perl-base to replace perl.

p.s. That attachment was not given the correct mime-type. It came up as
application/x-unknown here, while it should have been text/plain. Check
your mail program.
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