Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages
On 2016-09-24 15:48:15 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two
> > packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable
> > this morning:
>
> > perl 5.24.1~rc3-2
> > perl-base 5.24.1~rc3-2
>
> > I grab AMD64 packages in case that makes a difference AND I have other
> > larger packages still waiting to be upgraded, as well.A total of
> > almost 400MB the last couple days! Am on dialup and have to be
> > selective about the order in which packages are upgraded in between
> > taking the opportunity to actually participate online.
>
> > Yes, a bug has been filed, just minutes ago, and only against Perl
> > at this time.
>
> Why would you think this is a bug? This is just a normal Perl-API
> transition, the packages need to be rebuild against the new perl to be
> compatible.
>
> This _is_ Unstable after all, things like this happen all the time.
Things like that should not happen. But this is not a bug in the perl
packages. This is a misfeature of apt / aptitude, which want to remove
packages instead of holding the new packages (well, AFAIK, aptitude
has improved, but is still not perfect).
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