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Re: perl 5.6.1-8 vs 5.6.1-7



On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:49:59PM -0500, Mark Copper wrote:
> I'm trying to install Perl onto a new system.  "apt-get install perl" 
> won't work because perl-base is required and a conflict arises.  That 
> is, "apt-get install perl-base" says the latest version is already 
> installed, but this appears to be version 5.6.1-7, and "apt-get install 
> perl" wants version 5.6.1-8.
> 
> Could this be related to having Debian security in my sources.list?  I 
> see from the debian-changes list that 5.6.1-8 was accepted in November.  
> But the distribution is "testing-security".  How is that different from 
> simply "testing"?

Could you post your sources.list?  According to apt-cache, testing has
5.6.1-7 atm...I don't have the security line though (since I actually
run sid), so maybe it's got a newer version.

-rob

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