Re: new perl dependencies

[Jonathan Heaney <j.heaney@zetnet.co.uk>]

Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> When I run dselect last night, there was a bunch of important packages
> that had been upgraded.  One of them was perl-5.005-doc.
>
> I accepted all the suggestions, but when I was ready to exit selection
> mode and start downloading, I was thrown into a conflict/dependency
> screen with just perl-5.005 and perl-5.005-doc.  And no matter what I
> did, dselect threw me into that screen again and again.  I had to
> force my way out with an `x'.
>
> Everything seems to run for the moment, but I am shaken.  Is this some
> kind of circular dependency among the packages involved?  Can it be
> fixed?

I put perl-5.005-doc on hold (use '=')

And will wait until it gets fixed.

Jonathan