Re: debconf / perl in unstable

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

"Forrest English" <forrest@truffula.net> wrote:
>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 thought i'd give a shout and see if that's been fixed before i gave it
>another try.  late nights of reinstalling doesn't sound like much fun.

Well, all you needed to do was 'apt-get install perl-5.6', possibly with
a bit of hand-hacking.

Anyway, perl has a new maintainer now, and should be fixed.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]