Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

As a general rule, I find that using Debian packaging for perl makes 
absolutely no sense - and often problematic.

Perl has its own ecosystem (cpan) that does an incredibly good job of 
packaging, updating, and dependency management.  Mixing and matching 
that with Debian packaging, and expecting packagers to keep up with 
updates to lots of different perl modules, is just a recipe for disaster.

Far better to install perl manually and use cpan to manage updates and 
installs.


On 9/28/16 4:06 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > It doesn't remove anything without your permission.  It proposes
> > a solution to the problem you present it with.  You can reject that
> > solution and have it try again.
> FWIW, the way it presents the solution makes it hard to see what's
> really going on.  More specifically, the list of removed packages does
> not distinguish the manually-installed packages from the
> automatically-installed ones.
>
> I usually don't care about removing automatically-installed packages,
> whereas I rarely want to remove manually-installed packages.
>
>
>          Stefan

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