Re: Depends: perl but it is not installable

[Jacob Friis Larsen <webcom.dk@gmail.com>]

This is what happened on my other Debian testing machine:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  apache apache-common apache-utils autoconf automake1.4
build-essential colorgcc daemontools-installer debhelper defoma
  djbdns-installer dpkg-dev fontconfig gnuplot gnuplot-nox gnuplot-x11
intltool-debian leaktracer libapache-mod-gzip
  libapache-mod-php4 libbit-vector-perl libcarp-clan-perl
libdate-calc-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libfontconfig1
  libgd2-xpm libnet-daemon-perl libnet-snmp-perl libplrpc-perl librrd0
libterm-readkey-perl libtie-ixhash-perl logwatch
  mysql-client-4.1 mysql-server-4.1 mytop nagios-common nagios-mysql
nagios-plugins ntp ntp-server ntp-simple perl perl-doc
  perl-modules pflogsumm php4 php4-gd php4-ps phpmyadmin po-debconf
radiusclient1 sgml-base snort-common swish++
  ttf-bitstream-vera xml-core
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  python2.3-libxml2 python2.3-libxslt1
The following packages have been kept back:
  fetchmail
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libxml2-python2.3 libxslt1-python2.3 perl-base
3 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 58 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 290kB/1041kB of archives.
After unpacking 109MB disk space will be freed.
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Abort.