Joey Hess > It would also help if you can figure out where that copy of > base.pm came from -- did you locally install it by accident, via CPAN, > or something? You're not the first person to run into this problem. I think /usr/lib/perl5/base.pm is from perl 5.004.04-7 I would tentatively suggest that the new version of debconf be made to depend on perl 5.6.0 to avoid this problem. Regards Tim