> last time i tried to apt-get upgrade my potato/sid system to unstable, it > completely broke perl, debconf and apt. i was really displeased. I ran into this problem a while ago and had to install perl 5.6 from unstable. I installed the whole shebang as i tend to use perl rather extesively :) : perl-5.6 perl-5.6-base perl-5.6-debug perl-5.6-doc perl-5.6-suid perl-5.6-thread Works fine for me. Harald